The Department of Health and Human Services message comes after emails from the Office of Personnel Management and a tweet by Musk caused widespread confusion.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warned employees on Monday that emailed responses to Elon Musk's demand that federal workers justify their employment may be "read by malign foreign actors.

Leadership at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is telling employees not to respond to directions from an Elon Musk-guided email, which asks each worker in the federal government to | Elon Musk is facing a lawsuit from federal workers over a mass email requiring government employees to list productive tasks from the prior week or risk termination.

HHS warned employees that if they respond to Elon Musk's request to list five things they accomplished last week to assume it would be read by malign foreign actors.

The deadline given to federal employees by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and Elon Musk over the weekend is quickly approaching, but widespread confusion remains as agencies tell workers

Trump’s billionaire enforcer told federal workers they needed to justify themselves—or else. Then the administration changed its mind.

Protests in DC and around the country called out Elon Musk and President Donald Trump for cuts to the federal workforce. In front of the Health and Human Services building, scientists highlighted lifesaving work to cure cancer or stamp out infectious disease that has been canceled.

One employee from an agency within HHS who asked to remain anonymous described "chaos ... The medical and public health communities blasted the move, which was led by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. Eight recent former leaders ...

The White House said federal agencies have discretion over key policy, as records showed Elon Musk’s team pushing for still more enormous changes.