The billionaire adviser to the president spoke at the beginning of the meeting with the heads of agencies such as the state department and Pentagon.

The work of the U.S. DOGE Service bears the unmistakable fingerprints of the world’s richest person, even if he’s not formally the administrator.

Elon Musk joined President Trump’s first cabinet meeting and said that America would go bankrupt without DOGE’s aggressive cost-cutting moves.