Trump tells Cabinet members that they’re in charge, not Musk: Sources [Video]

President Donald Trump convened a Cabinet-level meeting Thursday morning to tell the heads of the agencies that they are in charge of the agencies and departments they oversee — not Elon Musk, multiple sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.

Musk was in the room for the meeting when Trump told top officials that Musk’s role is to make recommendations and not unilateral decisions — whether it be about staffing decisions or policy matters, the sources said.

Musk posted on X that the meeting was “very productive.”

The meeting comes as his own Cabinet secretaries have privately expressed frustration about Musk and the mandates he has been giving that have caused mass confusion among the federal workforce.

Despite not being a member of the Cabinet, Musk has outsized influence in the administration as he oversees the Department of Government Efficiency’s work to …