Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk have commented positively about each other in the wake of their reported Cabinet Room shouting match at the White House.
The pleasant exchange happened on X, which Musk owns. The comments came after Rubio said the State Department had found, “5200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the United States.”
Those contracts were part of the United States Agency for International Development.
Rubio thanked DOGE in the same X post. Musk then responded with, “Good working with you. The most important parts of USAID should have always been with the State Department.”
Over the weekend, the pair shared similar criticism of Polish Prime Minister Radoslaw Sikorski.
Sikorski accused the U.S. of threatening to shut off Musk’s Starlink Internet program, which Poland partly pays for Ukraine to use.
Rubio said Sikorski was “Making things up,” and that “Ukraine would have lost the war a long time ago” without the crucial services of Starlink.
Both Secretary Rubio and Mr. Musk agreed that cutting off the service would gravely harm Ukraine’s defenses. Musk, for his part, piled on by calling the prime minister “A small man” and that there is “no substitute for Starlink.”
It appears that – for now – Mr. Musk and Mr. Rubio are back on the same page.
‘Where’s the handcuffs?’ Rubio says THOUSANDS of USAID contracts now canceled
