The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) recently sent a controversial email to federal employees, demanding they account for their work activities from the past week by Monday at 11:59 p.m. ET. This directive emerged following a social media post by Elon Musk,

Musk initially said the request was a 'very basic pulse check,' but now says it will root out 'non-existent people or...dead people' who are collecting paychecks. Several agencies are telling employees to ignore the email for now.

Trump claimed Monday that any agencies saying not to respond to the email were doing it "in a friendly manner."