Five things we learned from Trump’s first Cabinet meeting with Musk
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President Donald Trump‘s first White House Cabinet meeting on Wednesday saw the president and his agency leaders advance foreign and domestic issues, and it offered tech billionaire Elon Musk an opportunity to address concerns over the Department of Government Efficiency.
Musk’s DOGE has steamrolled Washington with Trump’s support. The president said the Environmental Protection Agency would gut 65% of its workforce, or 10,000 employees, as DOGE attempts to slim down the federal workforce.
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