For Musk and Rubio, Public Niceties After a Private Clash

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : In the same meeting, Rubio bristled at how Musk had undercut his leadership to flatten the U.S. Agency for International Development, the government's lead agency for distributing foreign aid.
57% : Trump had announced in an executive order on the first day of his presidency that he was instituting a 90-day pause on foreign aid, pending a review, to bring the United States' foreign aid programs in line with his administration's interests.
53% : But Rubio's apparent embrace of Musk's objectives revealed the extent to which the billionaire Trump supporter wields power in the administration.
52% : On Monday, Rubio thanked Musk's team at the Department of Government Efficiency for aiding in making the drastic cuts he had resisted, and announced that the agency's remaining work would be subsumed under the State Department.
45% : " During the meeting last week, Trump defended Rubio for doing a "great job" and decreed that Musk's team would be merely advising Cabinet secretaries about future cuts.
4% : WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Elon Musk, the tech billionaire deputized by President Donald Trump to slash federal spending, sought to smooth over their ugly confrontation in the White House last week with an awkward social media embrace Monday, as Rubio formalized deep cuts to foreign aid that Musk had demanded.

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