The president said he held a meeting with secretaries and Elon Musk on Thursday, where he told them to avoid broad cuts to staff.
Brandon Bell/AP
President Donald Trump says he has instructed the Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk and his cabinet secretaries to be discerning when cutting federal staff.
“We say the ‘scalpel’ rather than the ‘hatchet,’” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
The president met with his cabinet and Musk on Thursday, Politico reported, and told them Musk’s job is to make recommendations — not one-person decisions on staffing and policy.
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