WASHINGTON – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will visit President Trump at the White House on Friday. Trump made this announcement when speaking to the media in the Cabinet Room ahead of his first official full-Cabinet meeting of his second term.

The president seemed optimistic that a deal could be done that will benefit all nations invested in seeing an end to the fighting between Russia and Ukraine.

“The previous administration put us in a very bad position,” said Trump of the Biden administration’s inaction on a diplomatic solution to the war.

“Taxpayers shouldn’t be footing the bill more than Europe is paying,” he said. “We are going to sign an agreement that will be a very big agreement,” that “will be about rare earths and other things.” Trump was noncommittal on whether that deal will be signed on Friday or what else the visit by Zelensky will accomplish.

During his media availability in the Cabinet Room, Trump also praised DOGE, saying it is “one of the most important initiatives,” of his administration.

NOW: President Trump asks Elon Musk to speak about DOGE at the first cabinet meeting, quickly shows off his “tech support” shirt

“I actually just call myself humble ‘tech support’ here… that’s almost a literal description of what DOGE is doing. Fix the computer systems,… pic.twitter.com/JYxqpxgw8s

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 26, 2025

The president then allowed Elon Musk to give an update on the department’s work. Musk told reporters that in order to reach a goal of ridding the government of $1 trillion in wasteful spending, “We must save $4 billion a day.”

The world’s richest man also gave a more complete picture of the role DOGE plays in the Trump administration, saying, “DOGE is a support function for the president and for the agency and the department to find those savings. And we bring the receipts.”

When the Cabinet was asked by Trump if anyone was unhappy with Musk, they all gave the Tesla founder a round of applause as a show of support. The president himself showed support for DOGE’s email campaign, claiming that the goal is to root out any workers who should not be receiving a salary from the government.

Musk further explained, “The emails were mistakenly thought of as a performance review. They’re not. They’re a pulse check review […] What we are trying to get to the bottom of is we think there are a number of people on the government payroll who are dead.”

President Trump touched on many other topics including the dramatically reduced number of illegal border crossings, the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan and the evolving hostage-release situation between Israel and Hamas from the Cabinet Room.