Negotiations are starting to take shape as President Donald Trump seeks to implement executive orders and make good on campaign promises.

On the homefront, Trump sought to embolden his chief advisor, billionaire Elon Musk.

“Elon is doing a great job, but I would like to see him get more aggressive,” Trump wrote in a Feb. 22 post on Truth Social.

Musk responded by directing his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to send query emails to civil servants asking, “What did you do last week?”

Multiple intelligence agencies ignored the question and the Office of Personnel Management instructed staff that cooperation with DOGE was voluntary.

“I joined Democrats to demand federal agencies reject Musk’s illegal attempt to be everyone’s boss. Now, he backed down,” Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz wrote in a post on X. “Every day, we’ll fight back against Musk’s efforts to take over our government.”

Meanwhile, Trump continued to push for an end to the war in Ukraine, warning that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “better move fast” to negotiate an armistice with Russia. Trump also called Zelenskyy “a dictator without elections,” while dispatching Secretary of State Marco Rubio to Saudi Arabia to engage in talks with Russian leaders. The meeting — that excluded Ukrainian officials — marked the first formal discussions between the two countries since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

“We are using our global strength to unite countries,” Rubio said. “The United States wants peace. We want the killing to stop.”