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, the world’s richest man, is set to attend President Donald Trump’s first White House Cabinet meeting Wednesday morning, CNN reported. Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt defended Musk’s attendance at the meeting despite the fact he is not an official member of the Cabinet but just a “special government employee.