(NewsNation) — State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said the furniture gathering successful which determination was an alleged shouting lucifer betwixt Elon Musk and Secretary of State Marco Rubio was a “productive” one.
“I deliberation erstwhile you recognize the Trump medication due to the fact that we truly didn’t spot immoderate of this during the Biden medication due to the fact that determination were nary furniture meetings, is that determination are conversations, determination are meetings. That was a productive meeting," Bruce said connected "NewsNation Live."
Musk, the world’s richest idiosyncratic who helms six large companies, reportedly tore into Rubio, scolding the erstwhile legislator for not firing overmuch of the workforce astatine the State Department and that helium is lone “good connected TV,” but hardly for thing else,
The New York Times created the report, citing interviews with 5 radical with cognition of the events.
Rubio, privately, has been “furious” with Musk for immoderate time, peculiarly aft the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) acceptable its sights connected shuttering the U.S. Agency for International Development, the bureau that administers billions of dollars of security, humanitarian and improvement assistance successful much than 100 countries, the Times reported.
President Trump denied an statement took place.
NewsNation affiliate The Hill contributed to this report.