President Donald Trump is facing pushback after federal workers across the country received an email over the weekend asking them to justify their positions by midnight. Several agencies had instructed their employees not to respond to the directive,

Several House Republicans pleaded with leadership Tuesday for guidance on how to respond to the deluge of questions from their home districts on recent federal cuts, and called for more involvement in the Department of Government Efficiency’s process,

The BBC asked attendees what they make of the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), headed by Elon Musk. The advisory body has been tasked by President Donald Trump to making financial cuts to the federal government.

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has been dramatically cutting federal jobs over the past month, creating chaos and fear throughout the federal workforce, but meeting little official pushback.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt declined to name the administrator of the Department of Government Efficiency during Tuesday’s press briefing. By all indications, Elon Musk has been leading DOGE and the Trump administration’s mission to shrink the size of the federal government and cut allegedly wasteful or fraudulent spending.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who has insisted Donald Trump is the “most transparent president in history,” refused on Tuesday to tell a reporter “from this podium” the name of the official administrator of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).