“Marco Rubio blew up at Elon Musk at a closed-door Cabinet meeting after the DOGE head accused the secretary of state of failing to slash his staff,” the Daily Beast reports.
“Musk, the world’s richest man, told the secretary of state, who was seated next to Donald Trump at the meeting on Thursday, that he had fired ‘nobody.’ He sarcastically added that the one person Rubio had perhaps fired was an employee of Musk’s DOGE.”
“Rubio has been privately livid at Musk since he tore apart an agency supposedly under the secretary’s control: the U.S. Agency for International Development, which Musk has effectively eliminated in his bid to take a chainsaw to federal spending.”
New York Times: “Simmering anger at the billionaire’s unchecked power spilled out in a remarkable Cabinet Room meeting. The president quickly moved to rein in Mr. Musk.”
New York Magazine: Trump keeps everyone guessing about Elon Musk’s power.
