US President Donald Trump on Thursday collected a meeting of his cabinet secretaries to talk about Elon Musk and his efforts to reduce government consumption and number of staff.
According to media reports, it became heating.
Musk Accused State Secretary Marco Rubio failed to reduce enough staff in the State Department, reports the New York Times.
The technological powerful told Rubiou that he was “good on TV,” according to the newspaper, obviously skipping any praise of his work as the US Best Diplomat.
The billionaire also clashed with the traffic secretary Sean Duffy about whether the Musk working group of the Ministry of the Government (Doge) tried to release the air traffic controllers already in a shortage at the Air Force, according to the New York Times.
Duffy’s department under the supervision, after two collisions of the US airline since Trump, has taken over his duty in January.
After listening to the back and back, the Republican president allegedly intervened to clearly say that he still supports Doge, but from now on he will be in charge of the cabinet secretaries, and Tim Musk would only advise.
A State Department spokeswoman told the newspaper Rubio that the cabinet meeting was “an open and productive discussion”. The White House did not respond to the BBC requests for further comment.
A busy planned gathering could provide evidence that the president decided to reduce the strong power that Spacex and Tesla’s boss and his initiative to reduce the Cost Doge commanded in the first weeks of his administration.
Trump for the first time commented on a substance of a meeting on Thursday, which was published only in media reports after that, through the post that evening on his website on social networks, Astina Social.
He said he sent his secretaries to work with Doge on “cost reduction measures”.
“While the secretaries learn to understand the Oi, people who work for different departments can be very precise in who will stay and who will go,” he wrote, adding that they should use “Scalpel”, not “Hatchet”.
Just a few weeks ago, Musk had a great chainsaw at a conservative conference – a visible symbol of aggressive attempts to reduce state consumption that made it angry democrats and worried some officials in Trump’s administration.
The Musk team sent more E -Poruk from an official state account to millions of federal workers, encouraging them to accept monthly wages in exchange for their resignation.
Federal workers received instructions to provide accounts of their weekly achievements or risk release – a request of an agency ordered employees to ignore.
Doga also ordered the rejection of many newly established government employees who, due to their “trial” status, had no complete protection of the civil service.
Some government agencies have since abolished these orders because employees considered the essential, such as those who supervise the safety of nuclear weapons.
During the oval office event on Friday, Trump answered questions about the cabinet meeting – and reports on its fierce exchange. He insisted that there was no “conflict”. He praised and ruined Musk and said that the two were “great”.
Trump seems to have given the truth of the department of the Department of more authority to withdraw against the male on Thursday.
This could also be an attempt to isolate Trump’s administration from lawsuits that claim that Musk has too much power for someone who, unlike the cabinet secretary, is not subject to the examination and confirms the Senate.
Several federal judges who oversee these cases have already expressed concern about Musk’s powers – concerns that Trump’s comments during his address to the Congress on Tuesday may have further prompted that a billionaire, in fact, is a man in charge of Doge.
Musk and Trump have created a terrible partnership so far – as the richest man in the world and the most powerful politician in America. Washington has been full of speculation for months about whether this partnership can ultimately break.
These predictions, however, usually follow the renewed sign of comic between the two men.
On Friday night, Musk was seen at the Information Air Force One with the President on a flight to Trump’s House of MAR-a-Lije Florida for the weekend.
The dust of the cabinet may be the first crack in the Foundation-there is a lot of evidence that Trump continues to support Musk wider efforts and goals, even if he could prefer to use a scalpel in the days ahead, not a chainsaw.
