Amid confusion regarding Elon Musk's request for federal employees to list five accomplishments they achieved last week, the president has stepped in to defend the OPM email, calling it "great" and arguing that "a lot of people aren't answering because they don't even exist.

The revelation comes as federal workers face a midnight deadline to respond. WASHINGTON — Responses to the Elon Musk-directed email to government employees about what work they had accomplished in the last week are expected to be fed into an artificial intelligence system to determine whether those jobs are necessary,