President Donald Trump held the first Cabinet meeting of his new term Wednesday morning, and Elon Musk was in attendance, sitting away from the table of secretaries. “We simply cannot sustain as a country $2 trillion deficits.

Elon Musk, who leads President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, took center stage at the administration’s first cabinet meeting. Musk called his email directive to federal workers to send five accomplishments from last week a “pulse check.

The billionaire adviser to the president spoke at the beginning of the meeting with the heads of agencies such as the state department and Pentagon.