President Trump said his cabinet, not Elon Musk, is in charge of cost-cutting in their departments, adding retaining good employees is "precious."

Trump said he wants his Cabinet to “keep good people” as he addressed sweeping government cuts – but he also warned that “we’re going to be watching.”

In his first annual address to Congress since retaking the White House, Donald Trump claimed his administration had saved billions of dollars by slashing wasteful and fraudulent government spending. But the US president misrepresented several of the programs he cited.