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 Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is reportedly ordering his staff to comply with the email request from Elon Musk for federal workers to justify their jobs. The post RFK Jr. Reportedly Ordering HHS Staff to Respond to Elon Musk’s Email Demanding They Justify Their Jobs Or Quit first appeared on Mediaite.

Musk announced Saturday on X that the email asking employees to list five things they did last week was being distributed with President Trump's approval.

The Trump administration, ahead of a Monday evening deadline, is backing off Elon Musk’s weekend mandate that all federal employees submit five things they accomplished in the last week or face dismissal.

White House documents reviewed by Newsweek confirm that Musk "has no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself" and is not the administrator of DOGE. His involvement is unpaid, meaning he does not receive federal compensation for his advisory work.

The federal workforce is on edge after Elon Musk announced they must provide details on the work they accomplished in the last week or face losing their jobs.

The newly sworn-in HHS Secretary laid out his plans for the department, including investigating potential causes of chronic disease: ‘Nothing is going to be off limits’

Musk’s budget-slashing team had made efforts to rummage through the finances of the Department of Labor, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. A lawsuit brought by unions and nonprofits had sought a temporary order blocking DOGE from the files.