‘Not A Lot of It Makes Sense’: CNN Anchor Hammers Elon Musk’s Leadership of DOGE, Firing And Rehiring Employees

CNN’s chief national affairs correspondent Jeff Zeleny joined anchor Boris Sanchez on Thursday to report on the latest move out of the Trump administration to strip Elon Musk’s DOGE of the power to fire government officials.

Sanchez noted that Trump was speaking to the press and asked Zeleny if Trump addressed his latest announcement regarding DOGE.

“He has not yet. We’ll of course, we’ll keep monitoring that. But this is very interesting because the president, just a short time ago announced on Truth Social that Elon Musk was meeting with some members of the cabinet, not a full cabinet meeting, and this was not on the president’s schedule,” Zeleny replied, adding:

We know many cabinet secretaries are, in fact, doing other things across the country, but at least some cabinet secretaries meeting with Elon Musk. And this is coming after Elon Musk has been meeting on Capitol Hill with some Senate Republicans, some House Republicans. So a bit of blowback at all of the public relations fallout from these firings and freezings.

So the president is saying in this meeting, saying that he will have biweekly meetings with the Cabinet and Elon Musk so they can sort of be apprized of what is going on. And he made it clear that cabinet secretaries are in charge of these agencies, not Elon Musk. So bit of a course correction. We will see how the president describes it himself. But this is a significant development after we have seen Elon Musk in the Oval Office standing in the cabinet room and now a cabinet meeting not on camera.

The president in the white House decided to have this meeting today, not on camera, where they’re talking about how it’s not Elon Musk who’s in charge. It’s these cabinet agencies. So pretty significant development here. Again, coming in the context of after Mr. Musk, certainly popular among some Republicans, but getting an earful as well about some of these cuts that constituents have been complaining about to members of Congress.

“Yeah, it’s been difficult to pinpoint exactly who should be held responsible for some of the cuts and the confusion. Folks getting fired and then rehired and contracts getting canceled that, you know, were actually canceled like 20 years ago,” Sanchez replied, adding:

DOGE taking credit for that, not a lot of it makes sense. Nevertheless, Jeff Zeleny, we appreciate you breaking it down for us.

Musk’s DOGE cuts have grabbed headlines for weeks as certain essential workers, including those maintaining the country’s nuclear weapons arsenal, were fired and then urged to return to work. This week the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent an email to some 180 key workers who were fired, asking them to return to their jobs.

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