Musk’s directive to federal employees to justify their jobs falls flat as the Office of Personnel Management says it's safe to disregard his message.

HHS warned employees that if they respond to Elon Musk's request to list five things they accomplished last week to assume it would be read by malign foreign actors.

Musk fumed—and issued another threat—after federal workers were told they didn't have to comply with a demand to justify their jobs.