Pool report 1 - KL gaggle

Good morning! Karoline Leavitt gaggled with the press for about 4 minutes this morning after a media hit, from about 8:31 to 8:35am.

She was asked about Elon Musk attending the cabinet meeting today:

"Elon is working with the cabinet secretaries and their staffs everyday to identify waste, fraud and abuse at these respective agencies."

And she pointed to actions already taken by SBA Kelly Loeffler on return to office and EPA Lee Zeldin on $20 billion allocated by the Biden admin in its last weeks under review.

About the DOGE administrator:

Karoline said that she has always been the DOGE administrator and did not know why DOGE staff didn't know that.

"You are hounds in the media who are so obsessed with this for some reason. So in the effort of transparency, we told you who that person is."

And on Ukraine minerals deal:

She said she will check with NSC about the status of the rare earth minerals deal but in her last conversation with them last night the deal was "close."

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Brittany Gibson

Politics Reporter

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