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Listen to the Consider This podcast from NPR. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. President Trump continues to

downplay tensions between members of his cabinet and White House advisor, billionaire Elon Musk.

NPR's Tamara Keith reports, Musk is leading an extensive effort to slash the government

and make it more efficient.

In a weekend post on his social media site, the president wrote in all caps, Elon and Marco

have a great relationship. Any statement other than that is fake news. Three exclamation points.

Trump was responding to reports that Musk and Secretary of State Marco Rubio had a blow up in a

cabinet meeting late last week. The upshot coming out of it was that Musk and his Doge team

could make suggestions for spending cuts and reductions in force, but that it would be

up to the cabinet secretaries to make those decisions. Trump said he wanted cuts made with a scalpel.

This after Musk had embraced a chainsaw as an analogy for his approach. Tamara Keith, NPR

News, Palm Beach, Florida.

Ukrainian president Zelensky lashed out on social media today as Russia stepped up

attacks on Ukraine after the U.S. said it would stop sharing intelligence with Keeve.

And here's Eleanor Beardsley has more.

In a post on X, Zelensky said Russia had carried out hundreds of attacks against Ukrainians this past week,

using various types of weapons, he said, including 1,200 guided aerial bombs, 870 attack drones,

and over 80 missiles of different types.

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