White House Reveals Elon Musk’s Replacement
The White House has announced new leadership for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), noting that billionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced that he was leaving.
“The DOGE leaders are each and every member of the President’s cabinet — and the president himself — who is wholeheartedly committed to cutting waste, fraud, and abuse from our government,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said during a press briefing on Thursday.
“The entire Cabinet is involved,” the press secretary said. “I spoke to the president about it this morning, and the entire Cabinet understands the need to cut government waste, fraud, and abuse, and each Cabinet secretary at their respective agencies is committed to that.
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“They’ll continue to work with the respective DOGE employees who have onboarded as political appointees at all of these agencies,” she said. “Surely the mission of DOGE will continue.”
Musk has said that he is concerned that the president’s “Big Beautiful Bill” may stand in the way of the work that DOGE has done.
“I was disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decreases it, and undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing,” he said during an interview with “CBS Sunday Morning” set to air this weekend.
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Musk is stepping down from his role as a senior adviser to President Donald Trump, concluding a high-profile stint aimed at shrinking and reshaping the federal bureaucracy via the Department of Government Efficiency.
The announcement, made Wednesday evening, ends a chapter marked by sweeping agency overhauls, mass layoffs, and a flood of lawsuits. In addition, Musk reportedly found the inner workings of Washington politics frustrating and ultimately achieved far fewer reforms than he had initially envisioned, the Associated Press reported.
Musk steadily scaled back his spending cut goals — from an ambitious $2 trillion to $1 trillion, and eventually down to $150 billion — as he grew increasingly frustrated with the entrenched resistance to his reforms.
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He butted heads with senior Trump administration officials who allegedly resented his attempts to overhaul their agencies, and his aggressive push for cuts sparked intense political backlash from both parties, the AP added.
Musk’s stint in the Trump administration was always meant to be short-term, and he had recently made clear he planned to refocus on his core ventures, including electric vehicle giant Tesla and aerospace firm SpaceX.
However, administration officials had remained vague about when Musk would officially step away from his role leading DOGE. He ultimately announced his departure abruptly in a post on X, his social media platform.
Musk also ended his tenure with the Trump administration on an upbeat note, predicting that DOGE will continue to influence congressional spending reductions.
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“As my scheduled time as a Special Government Employee comes to an end, I would like to thank President @realDonaldTrump for the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending,” he wrote. “The @DOGE mission will only strengthen over time as it becomes a way of life throughout the government.”
The legislation contains a mix of tax cuts and enhanced immigration enforcement, along with some spending reductions. Musk described it as a “massive spending bill” that increases the federal deficit and “undermines the work” of DOGE.
“I think a bill can be big or it could be beautiful,” Musk said. “But I don’t know if it could be both.”
Trump commented on the legislation from the White House on Wednesday, indicating that he didn’t think it was perfect, either, but acknowledging the difficulties in getting Congress to go along with certain aspects of it.
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“I’m not happy about certain aspects of it, but I’m thrilled by other aspects of it,” he said, further suggesting that changes could be made.
