The White House ordered the C.I.A. to send an unclassified email listing employees hired in the past two years, part of the Elon Musk-led effort to drastically slash the federal work force. The C.I.A.

A U.S. official said the CIA sent an unclassified list of employees to the White House to comply with President Trump’s executive order to reduce the federal workforce. Raising security concerns, some lawmakers are calling the list a “disastrous national security development.

The CIA has sent the White House an unclassified email listing all new hires that have been with the agency for two years or less in an effort to comply with an executive order to downsize the federal workforce,