According to a senior administration official, Elon Musk is anticipated to attend President Donald Trump’s third known meeting with his Cabinet secretaries on Monday morning.
According to a senior administration official, the meeting will be a “follow-up on the last DOGE meeting.”
Referring to a March 6 meeting where Trump imposed restrictions on the billionaire tycoon’s power in response to criticism of fresh cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency, the official called the 11 a.m. meeting a “follow-up on the last DOGE meeting.”
Trump added, “We say the scalpel’ rather than the ‘hatchet,'” implying that secretaries could be “very precise” in who they chose to remove from their departments.
However, Trump said that if department heads do not make enough cuts, Musk would step in. It is better if they are able to cut. Trump claimed that Elon would make the cuts if they didn’t.
The New York Times reports that Musk’s accusation that Secretary of State Marco Rubio had fired “nobody” caused the meeting to degenerate into an explosive exchange.
On Truth Social, Trump subsequently stated that follow-up meetings would occur every two weeks, and Monday’s meeting roughly corresponded with that schedule.
It occurs as Musk continues to come under fire for his role and as Trump’s administration gets ready to announce new tariffs and deal with legal challenges related to immigration.
Musk is “not there for China, and if you ever mentioned China, I think he would walk out of the room,” Trump said Friday, refuting a report that the tech billionaire would be briefed on the U.S. military’s preparations for a possible conflict with China during a visit to the Pentagon. The president maintained that Musk’s DOGE initiatives were the main focus of the visit.
Musk took center stage at the Cabinet meeting earlier this month, characterizing DOGE’s work as “a support function for the president and for the agencies and departments to help achieve those savings to effectively find a 15% reduction in fraud and waste.”
Trump said as he presented Musk to the group, “He is making a lot of sacrifices.” “He is getting a lot of praise, but he is also getting criticism,” I said.
The incident happened soon after a number of secretaries seemed to defy the Department of Government Efficiency’s intentions by telling employees to disregard an order from Musk and his supporters that demanded a five-point response to the query, “What did you do last week?”
By :- Next Tech Plus
