Within four months, in which Elon Musk officially led the government department, an agency whose task is to reduce bureaucracy, inspired mass dismissals, wounded federal subsidies and encouraged employees to leave government work.
And now, in a sense, Musk uses his own advice.
Musk’s fitting as a special government employee leading Doge is coming to an end when he pays most of his focus on his companies, including in Tesla. Although Musk gets up from the political featherlight of the headlights, he said on Friday during a joint press conference with President Donald Trump in an oval office that he would still be a “friend and adviser” of the president and that the Doge rules will continue.
“I expect that I still give advice, whenever the president would like advice,” said Musk, the richest man in the world, told journalists on Friday, when he stood alongside Trump, dressed in a black shirt with the inscription “The Dogefather”.
“I hope so,” Trump answered, sitting at a firm desk.
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It is not clear who, if anyone, replaces Musk as a dog leader, but many employees of a billionaire in The commission will stay, said Trump. The president founded a dog through the executive order on the first day in the office As a “temporary organization” responsible for completing work by July 4, 2026.
Trump promised Friday that Doge cuts would be “fixed” and that the government would “stop much more waste in the coming months.” He also established Musk’s work, including cash cuts and “bureaucrats” leaving the federal labor force, and said that the results of Musk’s efforts would be apparent to the audience “long in the future”.
Reign Muska over Doge stimulated significant shocks in the federal government. In the Philadelphia region, employees were dismissed or, like other employees throughout the country, encouraged to resign in the near future. They were also locally inspired by the Doge financing cuts. The Non -Profit West Philly organization lost 700,000 USD in EPA financing, health programs were reduced by $ 2 million in Camden, and Americorps recently lost $ 10.2 million for projects in Philadelphia. These activities meant that the musk was political lightning for Democrats, when the Republicans continue to defend him.
“He had to go through a slingshot and arrows, which is a shame because he is an amazing patriot,” Trump said on Friday before he presented the musk to a immense, commemorative key.
Musk said that Doge became a “boogeyman” for all government cuts, even if the group was not involved.
But the commission still has no purpose for federal cuts ($ 1 trigger until September 30) and exceeded its progress, New York Times reported last month. On Friday, Musk estimated cuts in a tax year in 2025. Doge for over 160 billion dollars and “climbing”.
Musk told journalists on Friday that he still believes that “over time” Doge would reach trillion dollars in government cuts.
The role of the billionaire in Doge allowed him to become a powerful player in the inner circle of Trump, after Musk constantly led a campaign to Trump in Pennsylvania, the key battlefield in the presidential election in 2024. Musk put millions of dollars for the recruitment of voters in Pennsylvania, and his conservative committee for political activities He spoke cash prizes to assassination of state voters and hosted the town hall throughout Keystone.
Some of these cash gifts caused confusion among voters in Pennsylvania, and Pennsylvania told the questioner that they received unmarried checks in the amount of $ 100 from something that seemed to be a holding company, while others claimed that they had never received payments.
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Musk said that he would go back about his political work by telling Bloomberg News at Qatar Economic Forum, that he plans to do “much less” political expenses in the future. At the end of last year, he signaled at the end of last year that he could attack the progressive District Prosecutor in Philadelphia this month. But Big Bucks Muska was not involved, and Krasner won skilfully – and is now ready for re -election in November.
Musk told journalists on Friday that his withdrawal did not mean the end of the dog, but rather the beginning. He said that the Doge band would be “stronger”. Then he compared the dog to the Buddhist religion.
“It’s like a way of life,” said Musk.
