Donald Trump Holds First Cabinet Meeting In Second Term, Elon Musk Attends

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday convened his first Cabinet meeting since returning to office last month. Elon Musk, his billionaire adviser tasked with radically downsizing the US government, attended the meeting.

Despite Musk's lack of ministerial portfolio or formal decision-making authority, he is classified as a "special government employee" and "senior adviser to the president" by heading DOGE, according to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.

Musk, meanwhile, has already been dealing with upheaval within DOGE. One-third of his staff resigned in protest on Tuesday, days after he engineered a mass email to the federal government's two million workers, ordering them to justify their work or risk being fired.