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Pete Hegseth: “Following a review of Pentagon procedures and consultation…”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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Pete Hegseth tells DOD employees to comply with Elon Musk's 'What did you do last week'

Published | Video Starts at 00:53

Well, the Department of Defense employees received direction to at first just initially pause responding to this request to opm. Just to pause now, as we said, Following a review of Pentagon procedures and consultation with the Office of Personal Management, we needed to be careful on that front. on that front. I am now directing each member of the department's civilian workforce, just civilian, to provide those five bullets on what they accomplished in their specific jobs last week to reply to that email and CC their immediate supervisors. (00:53–01:10)

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Asserts that the Department of Defense reviewed procedures and consulted with OPM due to concerns about national security and classification.

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