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Pete Hegseth: “The Department of Defense employees received direction to at…”

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 00:45

On February 22nd of this year, OPM sent an email to all federal civilians asking them to provide. You remember this? Approximately five bullets of what they did last week describing their accomplishments. 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, because we do, we work on topics of national security, of sensitivity of classification, we needed to be careful on that front. (00:45–00:54)

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