President Trump has limited Elon Musk’s power, instructing him to work with department heads in shrinking the federal workforce.

From The New York Post. President Trump revealed plans for cabinet secretaries and other high-level administration officials to hold more sway in the Department of Government Efficiency’s push for personnel cuts.

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Cabinet officials will meet with DOGE every two weeks until the administration has wrapped up its efforts to revamp the federal workforce, Trump announced, while lauding special government employee Elon Musk’s efforts as “an incredible success.”

“Now that we have my cabinet in place, I have instructed the Secretaries and Leadership to work with DOGE on Cost Cutting measures and Staffing,” Trump announced on Truth Social.

“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,’” Trump emphasized in his post. “The combination of them, Elon, DOGE, and other great people will be able to do things at a historic level.”

Trump’s announcement comes on the heels of a closed-door meeting that most cabinet secretaries attended with Musk.

“It was a very positive one,” Trump said of the meeting. “It’s very important that we cut levels down to where they should be, but it’s also important to keep the best and most productive people.” …

Musk later followed up on X and hailed it as a “very productive meeting,” downplaying the fact that the president had seemingly limited his powers. Trump later reiterated to reporters that DOGE has “done an amazing job.”

“I want the cabinet members to keep good people. I don’t want to see a big cut where a lot of good people are cut,” he reiterated to White House reporters on Thursday.

“I want the cabinet members go first, keep all the people you want, everybody that you need,” he added. “I want them to do the best job they can where we have good people, those that’s precious.”

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(Excerpt from The New York Post. Photo Credit: The White House)