Today, Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12) sent a letter to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) demanding further information on the order to federal employees to submit by email “five bullet points” detailing their work on a weekly basis.

“The assumption that providing these bullet points to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) will help with government efficiency is not only unfounded but is insulting to federal employees and a potential security risk,” the letter states. “Federal employees in all agencies have a system in which they report the work they conduct and have a specific chain-of-command that they report to. Sending these emails to OPM is inefficient for workers and burdensome to review on a weekly basis.”

“In addition to being an inefficient measure of an employee’s work product, this requirement also reflects the lack of care and attention to detail for which DOGE and Mr. Musk are now known: asking what each federal employee has done in a given week puts at risk classified information and threatens our national security,” the letter continues. “The Washington Post reported, ‘officials at the military’s Cyber Command said there is considerable risk that the aggregation of unclassified and seemingly innocuous material could be analyzed by adversaries and matched with other information, yielding secretive details.’ Employees at several agencies handling sensitive information have been told not to comply with this directive.”

The letter goes on to seek clarification on which employees are subject to this requirement, the number who have responded, who is receiving these responses, on what basis are these responses being evaluated, and other details that have been obscured by the Trump Administration’s chaotic and inept approach to governing.

The letter gives OPM until Monday, March 24th, 2025 to respond.

The full text of the letter can be read here.