Elon Musk will join the first cabinet meeting of President Donald Trump’s second administration, with White House press chief Carolyn Leavitt making an announcement at a briefing on Tuesday.
Trump’s first cabinet meeting is scheduled for Wednesday. Musk is designated as a “special government employee” and serves as Trump’s director of government efficiency.
The president, vice president, president, ministerial secretary, and White House chief of staff are usually present at cabinet meetings.
.@Jeffzeleny: “Are Elon Musk planning on attending the President’s first cabinet meeting tomorrow?”@presssec: “He’s… Elon. He’ll be present tomorrow just to talk about Doge’s efforts, considering he works with the President and our Cabinet Secretary.” pic.twitter.com/1mfngaiyiz
– cspan (@cspan) February 25, 2025
Musk and his team moved from agency to agency last month, working together with the federal government for unnecessary spending.
scoop: @doge The Ministry of Education has found a wasteful contract of about $900 million from the Institute for Education Science and Science, administrative officials say @dailycaller.
The contracts they found did not directly fund improvements to student scores, officials added.
– Reagan Reese (@Reaganreese_) February 10, 2025
On Saturday, Musk told all federal employees to report what they did last week or be fired. Federal employees were then given a second chance to respond to the Office of Human Resources (OPM) productivity check-in email before facing termination.
“Look at everyone standing here and ask why people are angry at their boss, Americans, and the president of the United States, what you did at work,” he said. President Alina Haba told reporters Tuesday. “How stupid.”
One million federal employees have responded since the email request, Leavitt said Tuesday. (Related: Exclusive: Doge asks NIH employees: So, what do you do around here? )
“In line with @realldonaldtrump’s instructions, all federal employees will receive an email promptly requesting a request to understand what they did last week,” said Musk. I wrote it X. “A failure to respond is considered a resignation.”
It coincides with the president @RealdonaldTrumpIn the instructions, all federal employees will soon receive an email requesting a request to understand what they did last week.
Failure to respond is considered a resignation.
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 22, 2025
Some agency managers, such as FBI Kash Patel and directors of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, have told agencies to ignore emails from Musk’s team.
“Everyone works as one team. The president is not interested in national security and clearly doesn’t want to risk Confidential so he tells staff not to respond to that email. Respect the decision of the Cabinet Secretary of the Cabinet. Leavitt states of various directives: “It’s pretty common sense.”
