NYT: Musk And Rubio Had Blowup In Front Of Trump

The New York Times reports:

Marco Rubio was incensed. Here he was in the Cabinet Room of the White House, the secretary of state, seated beside the president and listening to a litany of attacks from the richest man in the world. Seated diagonally opposite, across the elliptical mahogany table, Elon Musk was letting Mr. Rubio have it, accusing him of failing to slash his staff. You have fired “nobody,” Mr. Musk told Mr. Rubio, then scornfully added that perhaps the only person he had fired was a staff member from Mr. Musk’s DOGE.

Mr. Rubio had been privately furious with Mr. Musk for weeks, ever since his team effectively shuttered an entire agency that was supposedly under Mr. Rubio’s control: USAID. But, in the extraordinary cabinet meeting on Thursday in front of President Trump and around 20 others, Mr. Rubio got his grievances off his chest.

Mr. Musk was unimpressed. He told Mr. Rubio he was “good on TV,” with the clear subtext being that he was not good for much else. Throughout all of this, the president sat back in his chair, arms folded, as if he were watching a tennis match.

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NEWS: Inside the Explosive Meeting Where Trump Officials Clashed With @ElonMusk

Simmering anger at the billionaire’s unchecked power spilled out in a remarkable Cabinet Room meeting. The president quickly moved to rein in Mr. Musk.https://t.co/DcxPqLGN4A

— Benjamin Ryan (@benryanwriter) March 7, 2025