Elon Musk If Doge retires withdraws: A representative of the White House told the Reuters news agency that the process of his retirement as a “special government advisor” would begin on Wednesday evening. Musk thanked US President on the social media platform X Donald Trump. He wrote his time as a special government agent at the Department of Government Efficiency.
The Trump government had stated that the efforts of the Doge Authority to save and reduce the government apparatus would continue.
The turbulent time of Musk as an efficiency officer of the US government thus ends a quick and unspectacular end. According to a person familiar with the matter, it has between Trump and the Tesla-Id boss no conversation before. Musk’s departure was decided at the “highest level”.
Musk criticizes Trump’s tax law
The exact circumstances of his departure were initially unclear. However, the eccentric entrepreneur had criticized Trump’s most important tax law on Tuesday. “To be honest, I was disappointed with the massive expenditure law that does not reduce the budget deficit, but increases and undermined the work of the Doge team,” he said in an interview with the US broadcaster CBS News.
After Trump’s inauguration, the billionaire quickly developed into a powerful force in Trump’s environment, unconventional and aggressive. At an event in February, he swung a red chainsaw under the wild cheer of the audience. “This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy,” he called.
billionaire Bill Gates A few weeks ago, Musk’s cuts at the aid organization US AID sharply criticized and said the idea that The richest man in the world is responsible for the death of the poorest children in the world, be frightening.
Conflicts with Rubio, Bessent and Navarro
In the past few weeks, Musk had repeatedly clashed with cabinet members, especially with Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, Minister of Transport Sean Duffy and finance minister Scott Bessent. He described Trump’s trade advisor Peter Navarro as “idiots” and “Dümmer as a sack of stones”.
His job cuts also met criticism in the US administration. Trump had emphasized in early March that personnel decisions were made by the ministries and not by Musk.
260,000 jobs cut with the federal authorities
Under the Doge regime, almost 12 percent or 260,000 of the 2.3 million federal employees were dismantled, mainly by threats to dismissal, severance payments and offers for early retirement, as a Reuters check of the HR exits. In some cases, personnel and middle cuts have led to bottlenecks in procurement, higher costs and a emigration of scientific and technological talents. In addition, courts pushed a stop to some measures.
On the other hand, Musk increased his frustration that he was unable to shorten the expenditure among federal authorities. “The situation of the federal bureaucracy is much worse than I thought,” said Musk this week of the “Washington Post”.
In a Tesla telephone conference in April, he signaled that he would significantly go back his government work in order to concentrate on his companies. Investors had demanded that he should concentrate on the electric car maker who suffers from a demand and a decline in the share price.
In addition to Tesla, Musk also includes the social media platform X and the space company SpaceX.