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Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Friday, February 14th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal.

Elon Musk joined President Trump in the Oval Office this week.

It's not optional for us to sit to reduce the federal expenses. It's essential.

They defended the aggressive cost cuts made by Doge. We'll catch you up on the latest there. And then Amazon

called its 350,000 corporate workers back to the office five days a week starting January.

But upon returning, some employees are finding there isn't enough parking or even desks. We'll

tell you about the e-commerce giant's messy return-to-office mandate.

First up, it's been roughly four weeks since Elon Musk took the helm of the newly established

Department of Government Efficiency, or Doge, which was tasked with slashing government spending.

And a lot has happened since.

WSJ columnist Tim Higgins joins us now to

catch us up on the latest as part of our series looking at Musk's first 100 days in the Trump

White House. Tim, Elon Musk had a press conference in the Oval Office on Tuesday. President

Trump was also there. Briefly, what was that about?

One of the things that caught official Washington, D.C. off guard was just the imagery of it.

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