KNEW This was coming….
Forcasted it last week…..
After Musk did his ‘show’ in front Cabinet and Agency heads alst week?
One COULD see the angst building….
Department heads and Agency Bosses had to go before Congress….
Musk did NOT…
Department heads and Agaency bosses spend the last few weeks taking orders from a a few poople who flew in and raided their computers and left orders foern the bosses to cut people with NO regard to who they were ordering gone, leaving the Departments and Agencies to play catchup and deal with media, lawmakers and angry Town Hall meetings….
This IS the First of several steps that will probably lead to Musk eventually being cast aside as damaged good’s…
Ysterday, Musk was also dressed down , gently, by Republican US Senate Lawmakers…..
I have repeated here…
One cannot piss off SO MANY people and NOT get THAT come back AT YOU…
We ARE talking about the US Government…
NOT Twitter, a Social media Blog….
Lot of people gonna be HAPPY to see the guy have his wings clipped….
President Donald Trump convened his Cabinet in person on Thursday to deliver a message: You’re in charge of your departments, not Elon Musk.
According to two administration officials, Trump told top members of his administration that Musk was empowered to make recommendations to the departments but not to issue unilateral decisions on staffing and policy. Musk was also in the room.
The president’s message represents the first significant move to narrow Musk’s mandate. According to Trump’s new guidance, DOGE and its staff should play an advisory role — but Cabinet secretaries should make final decisions on personnel, policy and the pacing of implementation.
Musk joined the conversation and indicated he was on board with Trump’s directive. According to one person familiar with the meeting, Musk acknowledged that DOGE had made some missteps — a message he shared earlier this week with members of Congress.
Trump stressed that he wants to keep good people in government and not to eject capable federal workers en masse. But his administration has in recent weeks fired tens of thousands of federal workers across numerous agencies in a series of blanket terminations. A federal judge and the chair of a federal civil service board have both concluded that the terminations were not tied to performance issues — and may have violated civil service laws.
It is unclear whether the new guidance will result in laid off workers getting rehired.
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The president later told reporters he wants Cabinet members to “keep all the people you want, everybody that you need.”
“And it would be better if they were there for two years instead of two weeks, because in two years, they’ll know the people better,” he added. “But I want them to do the best job they can, where we have good people, that’s precious.”
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The timing of the meeting was influenced by recent comments from Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), who said on CNN Tuesday that Cabinet secretaries should retain the full power to hire and fire, according to one official. The official said Trump has been flooded with similar concerns from other lawmakers and Cabinet secretaries.
The president’s admonition to agency heads could impact mounting legal scrutiny facing DOGE.
Judges have increasingly expressed frustration and bewilderment at the Trump administration’s inability to explain who is in charge of the bureaucracy-culling effort and whether Musk himself is playing any role in ordering up the steep cuts to programs and jobs.
Complicating the matter further, Trump declared during his address to Congress Tuesday that Musk is indeed the “head” of DOGE, a label that immediately reverberated in several of the Musk-focused court cases. Trump’s assertion conflicted with the White House’s representation in court last month that Musk had no independent authority to make policy decisions….
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A federal judge last week ordered sworn testimony from some DOGE officials and affiliates to more fully understand the group’s work. And two lawsuits aimed at stopping Musk himself — one in Washington, D.C., and one in Maryland — are reaching crucial milestones as well.
Those lawsuits allege that Musk has been exercising an unconstitutional degree of power for a government official who has not been confirmed by the Senate….
Note….
Trump just helped judges rule against DOGE orders and actions….
How many people will be rehired?
The South African ‘Flash’ just got demoted …..
Told ya So……