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Is THIS the Beginning of the End of the DOGE Destruction? [1]

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Date: 2025-03-06

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The recent Trump Cabinet Meeting “reversal details” are starting to leak out ...

Musk Can’t Fire Employees, Trump Reportedly Tells Cabinet Secretaries. Here’s Likely Why He’s Saying This. by Alison Durkee, Forbes Staff — Mar 6, 2025

Topline President Donald Trump told his Cabinet secretaries t hey should make final decisions on staffing and cost-cutting measures rather than billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency [DOGE], Politico reports, a move that could help shield the Trump administration in court as it fights multiple lawsuits challenging Musk’s apparent authority. • Trump told Cabinet secretaries Thursday that ultimate decisions on “personnel, policy and the pacing of implementation” at their agencies are up to them, Politico reported citing anonymous sources, saying Musk and his DOGE team can make “recommendations” but do not have any power to make “unilateral decisions.”

[...] • Musk agreed with Trump’s directive to defer to agency officials on staffing during the meeting Thursday, Politico reports, with one source telling the outlet that Musk acknowledged DOGE had made “missteps” in how it handled widespread government spending and staffing cuts.

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Is this simply a case of CYA, concerning the 100 of lawsuits and counting, making their way through the court system, as the Politico report theorizes?

Or, as this YouTuber thinks, this 180 scaling-back on the DOGE “powers,” is in large part, the result of the wide-spread citizen outrage, expressed at Republican Town halls, in recent weeks?

HOLY SH*T! Trump FINALLY SHUTS DOWN Elon!

Pondering Politics — Mar 6, 2025

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