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.

Marco Rubio was incensed. Here he was in the Cabinet Room of the White House, the secretary of state, seated beside the president and listening to a litany of attacks from the richest man in the world.

Seated diagonally opposite, across the elliptical mahogany table, Elon Musk was letting Mr. Rubio have it, accusing him of failing to slash his staff.

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Mr. Rubio had been privately furious with Mr. Musk for weeks, ever since his DOGE team effectively shuttered an entire agency that was supposedly under Mr. Rubio’s control: the United States Agency for International Development. But, in the extraordinary cabinet meeting in front of the president and around 20 others — details of which have not been reported before — Mr. Rubio got his grievances off his chest.

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  • @[email protected]English
    44•3 days ago

    Here’s hoping they anger enough classical Republicans to foment some sort of unrest within the party. It’s disheartening to see so many yes-men with no spines

    • @ilinamorato
      42•3 days ago

      Almost all of the “classical” Republicans have already resigned. The best case scenario for the GOP at this point would be enough infighting due to purity tests that everyone who’s left rips each other apart.

      • @[email protected]
        5•3 days ago

        The best case scenario would be for an asteroid to split apart over Washington DC and impact the White House, the Capitol, and the Supreme Court

  • @DrunkEngineer
    13•3 days ago

    Oh wow, they are going to cancel all the scientific grant programs and put PhD’s to work as air traffic controllers:

    “The exchange ended with Mr. Trump telling Mr. Duffy that he had to hire people from M.I.T. as air traffic controllers. These air traffic controllers need to be “geniuses,” he said.”