White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt defended Elon Musk’s latest email to federal employees, which asked them to summarize what they’ve done in the last week — and also said the White House will defer to cabinet officials on whether their employees should respond.
Still, she insisted there is no tension between Musk, who oversees the Department of Government Efficiency and who she said would attend a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, and the rest of the Trump administration’s leadership.
“Let me be very clear, the president and Elon and his entire cabinet are working as one unified team,” she said at her press conference on Tuesday.