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 team effectively shuttered an entire agency that was supposedly under Mr. Rubio's control, the United States Agency for International Development, USAID. But in the extraordinary Cabinet meeting in front of President President Trump and around 20 others, details of which have not been reported before, Mr. Rubio got his grievances off his chest, end quote. (03:30–08:52)
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Asserts that Musk's team closed the USAID, which was under Rubio's control.
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