By Trevor Hunnicutt, Alexandra Alper and Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday ordered federal agencies to undertake more large-scale layoffs of federal workers,

Elon Musk on Wednesday acknowledged that the U.S. DOGE Service “accidentally canceled” efforts by the U.S. Agency for International Development to prevent the spread of Ebola — but the billionaire entrepreneur insisted that the initiative was quickly restored.

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.

CNN’s Daniel Dale fact-checks claims made by President Donald Trump during his first Cabinet meeting, including on Ukraine aid, educational rankings in the US and the amount of fentanyl deaths in the country.

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.

Elon Musk and President Trump made remarks during the first cabinet meeting of Trump’s new term on Wednesday.