Some federal agencies, including the State and Defense Departments, told their employees not to respond to an email asking for a list of tasks they completed.

Here's the latest on the email fiasco that developed over the weekend involving Elon Musk and hundreds of thousands of federal employees.

Musk is "an employee of the White House Office" and "holds a position as a non-career Special Government Employee," the filing said. "Like other senior White House advisors, Mr Musk has no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself."