Trump Invites Musk To Attend First White House Cabinet Meeting
By Reagan Reese, Daily Caller News Foundation | February 25, 2025
Elon Musk will join President Donald Trump’s first cabinet meeting of his second administration, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced during Tuesday’s briefing.
Trump’s first cabinet meeting is scheduled for Wednesday. Musk was designated to be a “special government employee” and is heading up Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency.
The president, vice president, presidentially appointed cabinet secretaries and the White House chief of staff are in typically in attendance at cabinet meetings.
Musk and his team have moved from agency to agency over the last month combing through the federal government for unnecessary spending.
On Saturday, Musk told all federal employees to report what they did over the last week or be fired. Later, federal employees were given a second chance to respond to the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) productivity check-in email before facing termination.
“Look at all of you standing here asking me why people are upset to answer to their boss, the American people and the president of the United States, what you’ve done at work,” Presidential counselor Alina Habba told reporters on Tuesday. “What a ridiculous thing.”
Since the email request, one million federal government employees have responded, Leavitt said on Tuesday.
“Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump’s instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week,” Musk wrote on X. “Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.”
Some agency heads, like Kash Patel at the FBI and the Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, told their agencies to ignore the email from Musk’s team.
“Everybody is working as one team, and the president respects the decisions of his Cabinet secretaries to tell their their staff not to respond to that email because they did so out of interest of national security, and they obviously don’t want to risk confidential information,” Leavitt said of the different directives. “It’s pretty commonsense.”
Regan Reese is a white house correspondent at the Daily Caller News Foundation
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