Elon Musk will participate in President Donald Trump’s very first cabinet conference tomorrow, White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt verified.
The billionaire is not a cabinet secretary however is leading the Department of Federal government Performance in taking apart federal firms.
Leavitt was asked by a press reporter at Tuesday’s press instruction whether Musk would exist.
” He is, as a matter of reality,” she responded.
Trump’s press secretary included that Musk would exist since he is working “together with the president, our cabinet secretaries” and the “whole administration.”
Musk will speak with Trump’s cabinet “about DOGE’s efforts and how all of the cabinet secretaries are determining waste, scams and abuse at their particular firms,” she included.
Musk reacted by sharing a clip of Leavitt on X where she stated the president “enjoys whatever he is doing and desires him to be a lot more aggressive.”
While the cabinet typically consists of the 15 department heads and the vice president, when asked for by the president, other authorities can participate in the conferences. Those authorities generally consist of functions such as the president’s chief of personnel.
The world’s wealthiest male is simply a staff member of the White Home, acting as a “senior consultant to the president.” He has “no higher authority aside from other senior White Home consultants [have],” and has “no real or official authority to make federal government choices himself,” according to a sworn declaration from a White Home senior authorities on February 18.
Today numerous questioned who was truly in charge after Musk required federal employees react to an e-mail where they reveal 5 things they achieved recently or danger termination.
Leavitt stated it was strategy Musk has actually executed at his business, including that she had actually reacted to the e-mail from the Workplace of Worker Management and noted her 5 achievements.
” Offering 5 bullets on what you did recently is so simple that even the hectic White Home @PressSec discovered time to do it!” OPM published on X.
Musk’s informal department has actually been on the getting end of reaction today following the efficiency e-mail and the aggressive rate of the task cuts.
Some department heads advised their staffers to neglect the e-mail totally.
It likewise emerged Tuesday that more than 20 DOGE staffers resigned after declining to utilize their technical proficiency to “take apart vital civil services.”