US President Donald Trump convened a meeting of his cabinet secretaries on Thursday to discuss Elon Musk and his efforts to reduce government spending and staff numbers.
This is confused, according to media reports.
Musk has accused state -owned state -owned Marco Rubio of failing to short enough staff in the State Department, the New York Times reports.
The technical tycoon told Rubio that he was “good on television”, according to the newspaper, emphasizing some praise for his work as the most good diplomat in America.
The billionaire also encountered Transport Secretary Sean Duffy about whether the special group of the Doge Ministry of Government (Doge) has tried to release the air traffic controllers who have already deficient in the Federal Aviation Administration, according to the New York Times.
The Duffy Department has been under control after two crashes of the US airline since Trump took office in January.
After hearing the return forward, the Republican president intervened to clarify that he is still supporting Dodge, but from now on the cabinet secretaries will be responsible and Musk's team will only advise.
A spokesman for the State Department told the newspaper that Rubio believes that the cabinet meeting was “an open and productive discussion”. The White House did not respond to the BBC's requests for further comment.
A quick planned gathering can provide evidence that the president has decided to limit the extensive power that Spacex and Tesla Boss and his initiative to reduce costs have commanded in the first weeks of his administration.
Trump first commented on the essence of the Thursday meeting, which was only revealed in media reports after the facts, through a publication tonight on his social media site, Truth Social.
He said he had instructed his secretaries to work with a Dodge on “cost reduction measures”.
“As secretaries learn and understand, people working for the different departments can be very accurate about who will remain and who will go,” he wrote, adding that they should use “scalpel” rather than “Luke”.
Just a few weeks ago, Musk held a glossy conservative conference cutter – a visible symbol of aggressive attempts to reduce government spending that angered Democrats and affected some Trump administration officials.
The Musk team has sent numerous emails from an official government account to millions of federal workers, encouraging them to accept months of advance pay in exchange for their resignation.
Federal workers were instructed to provide bills for their weekly achievements or to risk dismissing – a request that some agencies instructed their employees to ignore.
DOG also ordered to reject many new hired government officials who, due to their “test” status, have no complete protection for civil service.
Since then, some government agencies have canceled these orders as employees consider employees as essential, with those who control the security of nuclear weapons have been affected.
During the event at the Oval Office on Friday, Trump answered questions about the cabinet meeting – and reports of his heated exchanges. He insisted that there was no “clash”. He praised both Rubio and Musk and said that the two understood “great”.
The Trump Trump Truth social post, however, seems to give the department leader more powers to return to Musk.
This can also be an attempt to isolate the Trump administration from court cases that claim that Musk has too much power for someone who, unlike the cabinet secretaries, is not subject to Senate review and confirmation.
Several federal judges who control these cases have already expressed concern about Musk's powers – fears that can be further fueled by Trump's comments during his conversion on Tuesday that the billionaire was actually the man responsible for Dodge.
Musk and Trump have so far created a huge partnership -as the most rich man in the world and the most powerful politician in America. Washington has been full of speculation for months as to whether this partnership can eventually break.
However, these forecasts are usually followed by updated signs of a committee between the two men.
On Friday night, Musk was seen to board the Air Force with the president for flight to Trump's home Mar-lago in Florida for the weekend.
The dust in the cabinet may be the first crack in the foundation-but there is a lot of evidence that Trump still supports the broader efforts and goals of Musk, even if he can prefer to use a scalpel in the coming days, not a cutter.
