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Dulcinea

(8,279 posts)
Wed Feb 5, 2025, 08:37 AM Feb 5

Elon Musk gets quiet White House reminders his power isn't unchecked

(NBC News) Tech billionaire and newly minted “special government employee” Elon Musk has received quiet White House reminders in recent days that while he has wide, nearly unprecedented latitude to slash spending and reorient the federal government at a breakneck pace, his power is not unchecked.

Trump has suggested publicly, and aides have signaled behind the scenes, that Musk is still a staffer and needs to report to White House chief of staff Susie Wiles.

“I’m not sure it was his preferred direction, and it did not seem like he was expecting it,” a Trump aide told NBC News of Musk’s being told he needed to answer to Wiles. “But it has been reiterated to him in ways that, yes, he reports to the chief of staff.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-gets-quiet-white-042650972.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&segment_id=DY_VTO_CORE&ncid=crm_19908-1475736-20250205-0&bt_user_id=5Lm9I7h2sG3SJ3ze3QUzsFHeQFUEE70a%2FdMPLpOIgGJSr1RwgBead8etG4zWPqCJ&bt_ts=1738758417010

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Elon Musk gets quiet White House reminders his power isn't unchecked (Original Post) Dulcinea Feb 5 OP
Every knows he is running the show. multigraincracker Feb 5 #1
And he's still allowed to do illiegal criminal acts with the people's money........ Lovie777 Feb 5 #2
Oh bullshit mzmolly Feb 5 #3
Total BS. He's running the show and we all know it. Plump is afraid of him. If he was to walk out now, Plump would be so ratchiweenie Feb 5 #4

Lovie777

(18,144 posts)
2. And he's still allowed to do illiegal criminal acts with the people's money........
Wed Feb 5, 2025, 08:45 AM
Feb 5

shithole musk republicans speak with forks tongue.

ratchiweenie

(8,096 posts)
4. Total BS. He's running the show and we all know it. Plump is afraid of him. If he was to walk out now, Plump would be so
Wed Feb 5, 2025, 10:24 AM
Feb 5

screwed. Up a creek without a paddle. He has no idea what Musk is doing.

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