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Former Heritage Foundation Staffer Orders Treasury Employees to Respond to DOGE’s Email | Treasury workers don't know who the person is or why he is sending emails from a "Secretary of the Treasury"


Treasury workers don't know who the person is or why he is sending emails from a "Secretary of the Treasury" email address.

Workers around the federal government are scrambling to figure out how and if they should respond to an all-government email sent Saturday at the behest of Elon Musk asking them to list five things they did at work within the last week. Sources at the Treasury Department told 404 Media that they have not previously received any emails from John W. York, that they are not sure what his job is or whether he actually works for the Treasury Department, and that giving descriptive, substantial rundowns of their work tasks without giving “non-public” or sensitive information is not an easy task. York worked for the Heritage Foundation before joining the Office of Personnel Management towards the end of Trump’s first term.

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