Musk had the Office of Personnel Management send an email to more than two million federal workers asking them to submit five bullet points explaining what they accomplished in their jobs over the last week.

Trump-appointed officials at some government agencies — including the F.B.I., the State Department and the office coordinating America’s intelligence agencies — told their employees not to respond after Elon Musk ordered workers across the federal government to summarize in an email their accomplishments for the week or be removed from their positions.