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Trump puts new limits on Elon Musk
Politico ^ | 03/06/2025 01:55 PM EST | Dasha Burns and Kyle Cheney

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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To: FreeReign

“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 ...


21 posted on 03/06/2025 12:02:33 PM PST by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: HYPOCRACY

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.


22 posted on 03/06/2025 12:03:06 PM PST by Miami Rebel (pro-)
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To: Miami Rebel

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.


23 posted on 03/06/2025 12:03:49 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Miami Rebel

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.


24 posted on 03/06/2025 12:05:13 PM PST by CFW
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To: catnipman

“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.


25 posted on 03/06/2025 12:05:36 PM PST by Miami Rebel (pro-)
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To: Miami Rebel

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.


26 posted on 03/06/2025 12:05:43 PM PST by Hammerhead
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To: Miami Rebel

The Kabuki Theater season is excellent this year!


27 posted on 03/06/2025 12:05:52 PM PST by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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To: CFW

The key word is “clarified.”


28 posted on 03/06/2025 12:07:22 PM PST by Miami Rebel (pro-)
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To: Miami Rebel

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.


29 posted on 03/06/2025 12:08:56 PM PST by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: Miami Rebel

That is for the media’s benefit. Elon has been accused by the crazies of running the government, which Elon doesn’t like.


30 posted on 03/06/2025 12:12:17 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Miami Rebel

Politico is probably still waiting for their USAID pallet of Benjamins.


31 posted on 03/06/2025 12:13:39 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (SCOTUS stuck it to Americans again. Africa and other failed communist dumps are our responsibility.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Well Congress is the body that passed the waste to begin with.

They all should be ashamed of themselves.


32 posted on 03/06/2025 12:15:09 PM PST by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: Hammerhead

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.


33 posted on 03/06/2025 12:15:48 PM PST by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: Hammerhead

No, dragging it out for 6 months to a year is the NORMAL way Washington “works” and why nothing gets done.


34 posted on 03/06/2025 12:16:08 PM PST by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: Hammerhead

BS


35 posted on 03/06/2025 12:16:48 PM PST by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: Miami Rebel

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.


36 posted on 03/06/2025 12:17:33 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Wpin
"...You all know Politico is paid by democrats to bring division among our side. They always distort things and this is a good example..."

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.

37 posted on 03/06/2025 12:18:18 PM PST by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: citizen
More faux controversy.

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EXACTLY!!!!!!

The FAKE NEWS will try as hard as possible... it just ISN'T GOING to work this time around!!!!!!

38 posted on 03/06/2025 12:27:50 PM PST by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: Miami Rebel
Interesting, but it might just be a clarification for legal purposes.

Could be, a kind of level setting.

39 posted on 03/06/2025 12:29:34 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Miami Rebel

Sure it was.


40 posted on 03/06/2025 12:30:32 PM PST by SoConPubbie (Trump has all the right enemies, DeSantis has all the wrong friends.)
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