Posted on 03/06/2025 11:52:42 AM PST by Miami Rebel
President Donald Trump convened his Cabinet in person on Thursday to deliver a message: You’re in charge of your departments, not Elon Musk.
According to two administration officials, Trump told top members of his administration that Musk was empowered to make recommendations to the departments but not to issue unilateral decisions on staffing and policy. Musk was also in the room.
The meeting followed a series of mass firings and threats to government workers from the billionaire Tesla founder, who helms the Department of Government Efficiency, that created broad uncertainty across the federal government and its workforce.
DOGE’s actions have faced ferocious resistance in court and criticism from Democratic lawmakers and some Republicans.
DOGE’s actions have faced ferocious resistance in court and criticism from Democratic lawmakers and some Republicans.
Dems attack Elon Musk after DOGE gains access to sensitive data
The president’s message represents the first significant move to narrow Musk’s mandate. According to Trump’s new guidance, DOGE and its staff should play an advisory role — but Cabinet secretaries should make final decisions on personnel, policy and the pacing of implementation.
Musk joined the conversation and indicated he was on board with Trump’s directive. According to one person familiar with the meeting, Musk acknowledged that DOGE had made some missteps — a message he shared earlier this week with members of Congress.
Trump stressed that he wants to keep good people in government and not to eject capable federal workers en masse. But his administration has in recent weeks fired tens of thousands of federal workers across numerous agencies in a series of blanket terminations. A federal judge and the chair of a federal civil service board have both concluded that the terminations were not tied to performance issues — and may have violated civil service laws.
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“And I doubt Musk was ever “in charge” of all the departments.”
indeed ... just more politico bullshit ... DOGE only makes findings and recommendations like any auditor ... CEOs and their designees implement any changes they decide might be necessary based on said findings and recommendations ...
Yeah, I get it.
But it’d be super easy to shoot this down. But a ton of participants. Let’s see what gets out there in the next 12 hours.
The dems like to spin everything in terms of conflict.
Its a clarification, nothing more. So everyone’s on the same page. Limits? The dems will always like to portray anything like this as a problem. They are the masters of wedge issues.
Actually, I don’t think that’s true. He clarified that Musk is working with department leaders and they’ve decided to all meet every two weeks.
Speaking of limits though:
President Donald J. Trump signs an executive order suspending the security clearances for employees at Perkins Coie — which played a key role in the Russia hoax.
“This is an absolute honor to sign.”
Now THIS is something I’ve been waiting for. Perkins Coie is the old law firm of Marc Elias.
“And I doubt Musk was ever “in charge” of all the departments.
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I’d say that the messaging as to who was in charge was pretty weak, when it was Musk telling employees that they had to respond by email to keep their jobs. It would have been otherwise if it was the department secretaries who made the demand.
This whole thing has been a fiasco and soon will be realized as such. Trump should’ve trusted his cabinet members and given them direction to provide him within six months to a year the recommendation for reducing their budget and staff by a certain predetermined percentage. This wonton firings carnage is an absolute joke.
The Kabuki Theater season is excellent this year!
The key word is “clarified.”
President Trump did not have his team until they were confirmed by the Senate. Now that most of them are in power and they know what the mission is, they don’t need Elon calling the shots. He make suggestions and they make moves based on that as needed.
I see this as normal, and not a put down to Elon.
That is for the media’s benefit. Elon has been accused by the crazies of running the government, which Elon doesn’t like.
Politico is probably still waiting for their USAID pallet of Benjamins.
Well Congress is the body that passed the waste to begin with.
They all should be ashamed of themselves.
Yeah. They should do it the way it has been done for the past 80 years, because we know how effective that has been at reducing the size of government.
Yes. I am being sarcastic.
Even if DOGE does nothing more than shine a light on the corruption and results in “wanton firings”, that is more than has been done in the past 80 years.
No, dragging it out for 6 months to a year is the NORMAL way Washington “works” and why nothing gets done.
BS
This has been said before, and yes to make the firings more likely to stick legally—and Musk’s involvement less able to be challenged legally.
Funny how some people either don't get that at all, or fully get it and have chose to treat this as a valid story.
It is hard to decide sometimes which of those is more damning.
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EXACTLY!!!!!!
The FAKE NEWS will try as hard as possible... it just ISN'T GOING to work this time around!!!!!!
Could be, a kind of level setting.
Sure it was.
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