Elon Musk announced on social networks that he left his role in the Trump administrationA departure that the White House confirmed was underway on Wednesday evening.
“While my scheduled time as an employee of the special government will end, I would like to thank the president @realdonaldtrump for the advisability of reducing unnecessary spending”, the billionairer, the billionaire Written on xits social media platform.
“The DOGE mission will only be strengthened over time because it becomes a way of life throughout the government,” he said, referring to his “Ministry of Efficiency of the Government”.
A White House official told Reuters that the specific musk left the administration and that his “outboard will begin this evening”.
The departure of a man who named Trump’s “first boyfriend” was fast and without ceremony. Musk did not have an official conversation with Trump before announcing that he was leaving the administration, according to a source knowing the question, who added that his exit had been decided “at the upper level”.
Musk, the richest person in the world, defended their role as an unaduminated civil servant who obtained unprecedented authority by Trump to dismantle parts of the US government. His 130 -day mandate as a employment of the special government in the Trump administration was to expire around May 30 around May 30.
Musk and the administration said that Doge’s efforts to restructure and reduce the federal government would continue.
Musk was point out From Washington, and his commitment to return his businesses all week. He strongly criticized Trump’s spending plan and expressed his frustration in the face of the response to the efforts of his signing “Government Department of Efficiency”.
He criticized the president’s tax bill, the caller too expensive and a measure that would undermine his work to make the government more “effective”.
“The situation of the federal bureaucracy is much worse than what I did,” Musk told Washington Post on Tuesday. “I thought there were problems, but it is certainly a difficult battle while trying to improve things at DC, to say the least.”
He also told the post that Doge had been transformed into a “whipped boy” who had been criticized for everything that went wrong in Trump’s white house.
Musk had drank heads in private with some cabinet level officials and publicly attacked the White House sales advisor, Peter Navarro, as a “moron” to reject Musk’s push for “zero prices” between the United States and Europe.
Musk also had recently expressed his frustration to the White House officials During an agreement between Abu Dhabi and Openai, the rival led by Sam Altman to the own company of Musk, reported the New York Times. Musk had already tried to derail the agreement unless his business was included, the Wall Street Journal Reported.
The recent “disillusionment” of the billionaire with the policy was also influenced by the Failure of his legal candidate for WisconsinDespite the fact that Musk spent 25 million dollars on the race, the New York Times reported.
Trump and Doge managed to reduce almost 12%, or 260,000, on the federal civil workforce of 2.3 million people, largely thanks to threats of layoffs, buyouts and early retirement offers, a Reuters Reuters from agency departure.
Musk’s political activities have attracted demonstrations and some investors called Musk to leave his work as a Trump advisor and manage Tesla more closely.
Having spent nearly $ 300 million to support Trump’s presidential campaign and other Republicans last year, he said earlier this month, he would considerably reduce his political expenses. “I think I did enough,” Musk said at an economic forum in Qatar.
While Musk told Trump’s advisers this year It would give $ 100 million to the groups controlled by the president’s team before the middle of 2026, the New York Times reportedThe money had not yet arrived this week.
Reuters and Nick Robbins were early
