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Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, said on Tuesday that more than 100 intelligence officers from 15 agencies had been fired for having sexually explicit discussions on a government chat tool.
The chat program was administered by the National Security Agency and intended for discussions of sensitive security matters. But a group of employees used it for discussions that contained sexual themes, intelligence officials said this week. The chats also included explicit discussion of gender transition surgery, officials said.
U.S. President Donald Trump convenes his cabinet for the first time since his inauguration in January.
President Donald Trump is scheduled to hold the first Cabinet meeting of his second term. Elon Musk, who heads the administration’s Department of Government Efficiency and isn’t a Cabinet member, is expected to attend.
Elon Musk is set to attend Donald Trump’s first cabinet meeting of his second term at 11am ET this morning, despite not being a cabinet member.
The White House said on Tuesday that Musk would be participating in Trump’s first official cabinet meeting on Wednesday.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told CNN that “Elon, considering he is working alongside the president and our cabinet secretaries, this entire administration will be in attendance tomorrow.”
Leavitt added that Musk will be talking about the efforts of the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) and “how all the cabinet secretaries are identifying waste, fraud and abuse” at their agencies.
The Trump and Zelenskyy administrations are close to a final agreement on Ukraine’s provision of rare earth minerals to the U.S. in return for security guarantees.
President Donald Trump is scheduled to hold the first Cabinet meeting of his new term Wednesday morning, and Elon Musk plans to attend. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Tuesday that Musk, head of the U.S. DOGE Service, will attend the meeting to “talk about DOGE’s efforts and how all of the Cabinet secretaries are identifying waste, fraud and abuse in their respective agencies.” Later Wednesday, Trump is scheduled to sign more executive orders