Elon Musk is set to attend President Donald Trump’s first Cabinet meeting of his second term Wednesday in a display of the billionaire tech entrepreneur’s enormous influence in the Trump administration.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed the attendance of Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla who is overseeing the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency. Musk will discuss DOGE’s efforts “and how all of the cabinet secretaries are identifying waste, fraud and abuse at their respective agencies,” Leavitt said Tuesday. Cabinet meetings are typically attended by presidential-appointed Cabinet secretaries and the White House chief of staff in addition to the president and vice president. Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting comes after multiple federal department heads, at the guidance of the Office of Personnel Management, told their employees the latest Musk directive ‒ that they email a bullet-point list of five things they accomplished last week ‒ is voluntary. Musk had warned federal workers they would be terminated from their positions if they don’t respond. “Everybody is working as one team, and the president respects the decisions of his Cabinet secretaries to tell their their staff not to respond to that email because they did so out of interest of national security, and they obviously don’t want to risk confidential information,” Leavitt said. “It’s pretty commonsense.”

DOGE, led by Musk, has worked aggressively in Trump’s first month since returning to the White House to cut federal spending and downsize the federal workforce. Musk is considered a “special government employee” who has a government email address and office space on the White House campus but is not paid for his work.