The Trump administration on Tuesday officially ended a program which required federal employees to summarize five weekly achievements in emails, a White House and Office of Personnel Management official confirmed to POLITICO.
The mandate was originally introduced in February by tech mogul and one-time President Donald Trump ally Elon Musk, the then-head of the newly-created Department of Government Efficiency, as part of an effort to cut the federal workforce. Musk wrote on X at the time that the “bar was very low here.”
“Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation,” he wrote in his announcement of the policy in February.
Though many federal agencies had already phased out the emails, the official axing is another indication of the rift between Musk and Trump. The once-allied pair have been on the rocks for months after Musk criticized the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, among other things.
OPM Director Scott Kupor said in a statement that OPM informed agency leads it would no longer “manage” the process “nor utilize it internally.”
“At OPM, we believe that managers are accountable to staying informed about what their team members are working on and have many other existing tools to do so,” Kupor said.
Reuters was the first to report the administration is ending the "5 things" emails.
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