Trump asked #ElonMusk to stand up first to talk about what he’s doing w/ #DOGE. By all accounts, #Musk dominated the #TrumpCabinetMeeting.

Peter Baker noted, not a lot of people show up at cabinet meetings wearing a baseball cap.

Trump praised Musk’s email telling every federal employee to provide a list of 5 things they accomplished last week. He said the cabinet is very supportive of it.
“If they aren’t, I’d want them to speak up,” Trump said of cabinet secretaries.

#sycophants #USpol #law

#Trump said “I think we’ll be very close to balancing budgets,” but that appears unlikely to say the least. None of the plans advanced so far offer a credible plan to balance the federal #budget, which has a deficit of nearly $2T a year. Instead, Trump is pushing for large tax cuts for #corporations & the #wealthy that will make it harder to balance the budget.

#TrumpCabinetMeeting #USpol #economy

#TrumpCabinetMeeting notes

#Trump announced that President Volodymyr #Zelensky of #Ukraine will visit on Friday to seal a deal granting the #UnitedStates rights to Ukraine’s #mineral resources.

Trump repeated #disinformation about how much the #US & #Europe have contributed to Ukraine’s defense against Russia’s invasion since 202/, claiming inaccurately that the US has invested 3X as much as Europe. Per the Kiel Inst, Europe has allocated $138B to the war effort, the US has given $119B.

During questioning after #Trump’s #cabinet meeting, #Health Secy #RFKJr, a #vaccine critic, said the government was closely watching the #measles outbreak across #Texas. He said measles outbreaks occur every year.

[not at this scale & rate in the US, not before the outbreak of the #ConspiracyTheory #propaganda from idiots like Kennedy]

#FactCheck #TrumpLies #AntiVaxxers #PublicHealth #medicine #science #disease #GetVaccinated #vaccines #USpol #Trump #HHS #idiocracy #TrumpCabinetMeeting