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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.

A review of LinkedIn profiles by BI suggests that some of the federal workers let go by the NHTSA had been in their roles for less than a year.An NHTSA spokesperson told BI that despite the job cuts,