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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cracks are forming. From todays NYT article

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/us/politics/trump-musk-doge-power.html

Marco Rubio was incensed. Here he was in the Cabinet Room of the White House, the secretary of state, seated beside the president and listening to a litany of attacks from the richest man in the world.

Seated diagonally opposite, across the elliptical mahogany table, Elon Musk was letting Mr. Rubio have it, accusing him of failing to slash his staff.

You have fired “nobody,” Mr. Musk told Mr. Rubio, then scornfully added that perhaps the only person he had fired was a staff member from Mr. Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

Mr. Rubio had been privately furious with Mr. Musk for weeks, ever since his DOGE team effectively shuttered an entire agency that was supposedly under Mr. Rubio’s control: the United States Agency for International Development. But, in the extraordinary cabinet meeting in front of the president and around 20 others — details of which have not been reported before — Mr. Rubio got his grievances off his chest.

Mr. Musk was not being truthful, Mr. Rubio said. What about the more than 1,500 State Department officials who took early retirement in buyouts? Didn’t they count as layoffs? He asked, sarcastically, whether Mr. Musk wanted him to rehire all those people just so he could make a show of firing them again. Then he laid out his detailed plans for reorganizing the State Department.[/quote]

Wait, what?!? Rubio was not on board with dismantling USAID, his previously-beloved agency?

When Marocco, an avowed USAID-hater, was appointed to act for him while he was out of the country, it seemed a bit strange.  I thought Rubio just wanted Marocco to destroy the agency while he was away so he didn't have to see it happen.  Maybe so, but also apparently totally against Rubio's wishes.  [/quote]

Ah so I see we're in the FanFiction phase already[/quote]

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