Donald Trump has moved to constrain Elon Musk’s cost-cutting task force, ordering his cabinet to ensure the “most productive” civil servants are exempted from sweeping lay-offs that have wreaked havoc across the US.
In a meeting at the White House on Thursday attended by secretaries of state and Musk, the president hinted the billionaire’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency may have been too indiscriminate in its mass firings of federal employees.
Trump posted on Truth Social soon after the meeting ended: “As the secretaries learn about, and understand, the people working for the various departments, they can be very precise as to who will remain, and who will go. We say the ‘scalpel’ rather than the ‘hatchet’.”
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