Elon Musk said he wants to "send another email" to federal workers to get them to account for what they do.The White House said it received over a million responses, less than half of the entire government.President Donald Trump said that sending another email is a "good idea."Elon Musk said on Wednesday that the Department of Government Efficiency will "send another email" to federal workers asking them to summarize their accomplishments."You know, we got a partial response. We are going to send another email," Musk told reporters while attending President Donald Trump's first cabinet meeting.On Saturday, the Office of Personnel Management emailed federal employees, asking them to submit a list of what they've achieved by 11:59 p.m. ET on Monday.Musk said on Saturday that failure to respond by the deadline "will be taken as a resignation."Later, on Monday, Musk said that employees who have yet to respond will be given "another chance," but "failure to respond a second time will result in termination."Musk's email request sparked confusion across the government. At least eight agencies, including the Department of Defense and State Department, told their workers not to respond to OPM's email.The White House said on Tuesday that more than one million workers responded to the email, less than half of the entire federal workforce."I wouldn't say that we are thrilled about it," Trump said of the remaining federal workers who did not respond during Tuesday's press conference."Maybe they are going to be gone. Maybe they are not around, maybe they have other jobs," Trump added.Trump also said at the same press conference that he thinks Musk's plan to send a follow-up email is a "good idea.""You got a lot of people that have not responded, so we are trying to figure out, do they exist? Who are they? And it's possible that a lot of those people will be actually fired," Trump said.Trimming the federal workforce has become one of Trump's priorities in his second term.Last month, the Trump administration gave federal employees from January 28 to February 6 to accept a buyout offer if they did not want to work in his administration. A spokesperson for the OPM told Business Insider on February 6 that over 40,000 workers took the buyout.Then, on February 11, Trump signed an executive order to limit federal hiring. The order said that each federal agency can only hire one new employee if four employees leave. The restriction does not apply to jobs related to public safety, immigration enforcement, or law enforcement."There are too many federal employees. Excluding active-duty military and Postal Service employees, the federal workforce exceeds 2.4 million," the White House said in a fact sheet about the order.Representatives for the White House and DOGE did not respond to a request for comment from BI.