In one of his first in-depth interviews since joining the U.S. government, Elon Musk pushed a variety of claims about waste and fraud but offered little new information or insight into the work of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

A fresh directive to workers ordering them to justify their employment weekly is still being met with resistance at the highest levels.

The Trump administration sent another obnoxious email to federal employees ordering them to list their achievements from the previous week, making clear it intends for the bureaucratic memo exercise to be a new weekly ritual for more than two million workers.

US federal workers received a second weekend email demanding that they outline their accomplishments of the previous week — but this time with a message saying that it would be an ongoing occurrence.