U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman issued a temporary restraining order Monday morning that prohibits both the DOE and OPM from sharing the personally identifiable information of some federal employees with DOGE, as Elon Musk’s budget-slashing group attempts to begin identifying government employees based on their productivity.

President Donald Trump suggested he would assume that government workers who do not respond to Elon Musk's demand for job justifications by email "don't even exist." During a press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday,

President Donald Trump is backing Elon Musk’s demand that federal employees explain their recent accomplishments or risk getting fired.

Macron's visit falls on the three-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Macron said last week France and its partners want a "lasting and solid peace in Ukraine" after an emergency meeting of European officials in Paris as the U.S. held talks with Russia in Saudi Arabia.

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Hundreds of thousands of federal workers face a deadline from President Donald Trump’s cost-cutting chief, Elon Musk, to explain their recent accomplishments or risk losing their jobs.

The president said Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has found “hundreds of billions of dollars in fraud” as he suggested that federal paychecks are going to nonexistent employees.