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President Trump will meet with a few hand-picked reporters today at the White House.
He says he has asked billionaire Elon Musk to join them.
It's Musk's last day as a special federal government employee.
He has been overseeing the cost-cutting entity Doge.
NPR's Stephen Fowler says that Musk initially boasted he would use Doge to slash government spending by an enormous amount of money.
Musk had these lofty savings goals of cutting $2 trillion from before joining the government to a fraction of that to around $150 billion.
Our reporting has found those claims are inaccurate, overstated,
and rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of how the federal budget works.
Also, Doge's other signature efforts,
like cutting the workforce, have hit repeated legal snags,
driven in part by Musk's public statements that have been used to claim those changes broke the law.
NPR's Stephen Fowler reporting.
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer says President Trump would be breaking a promise he made to her