Trump’s Cabinet meeting serves as a backdrop to Musk’s power
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If anyone was still in doubt where the power lies in President Donald Trump’s new administration, Wednesday’s first Cabinet meeting made clear it wasn’t in the actual Cabinet.
If anyone was still in doubt where the power lies in President Donald Trump’s new administration, Wednesday’s first Cabinet meeting made clear it wasn’t in the actual Cabinet. Most of the Senate-confirmed, top-ranking agency heads sat around the table mostly silent during the more than an hourlong meeting, even though some of them had come prepared to make brief remarks. Instead, it was the man in the dark coat, sitting in the shadow along the side of the room, whom Trump ceded the meeting to in its opening minutes. Elon Musk, the billionaire tasked with reforming the government, is now without question Trump’s most powerful adviser. His efforts to dramatically reshape the federal bureaucracy have been met with outcry, confusion and — in the last few days — quiet grumbling even from some Trump allies about his brash tactics. But if Wednesday’s meeting was any indication, Trump himself has never felt better about empowering his top campaign booster to slash through his government with a proverbial chainsaw. “Is anybody unhappy with Elon?” he asked Cabinet members at one point, looking around his table.
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If anyone was still in doubt where the power lies in President Donald Trump’s new administration, Wednesday’s first Cabinet meeting made clear it wasn’t in the actual Cabinet.
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Elon Musk’s presence at President Donald Trump’s first Cabinet meeting on Wednesday will solidify his power in the administration — and how quickly he’s amassed it despite not being elected or Senate confirmed.