Washington – Elon Musk leaves his role as the government as the main adviser to President Donald Trump after he manages the efforts to limit and review the federal bureaucracy.
His departure, announced on Wednesday evening, means the end of a turbulent chapter, which included thousands of exemptions, looking for government agencies and a rice of disputes. Despite the shock, the billionaire fought in the unknown Washington environment and achieved much less than he expected.
He radically reduced his purpose of limiting expenses – from $ 2 trillion to $ 1 trillion to $ 150 billion – and more and more often expressed frustration due to resistance to his goals. Sometimes he tried with the other best members of the Trump administration who jerked the novice efforts A acute political explosion for his efforts.
The role of Musk for Trump was always intended to be transientAnd he recently signaled that he would change his attention to running his companies, such as the electric manufacturer Tesla and Rocket Company Spacex.
But administrative officials were often unclear when Musk withdrew from his position, directing the government department known as Doge, and suddenly revealed that he was leaving the post on X, his website on social media.
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“Because my planned time as a special government employee is coming to an end, I would like to thank President @realdonaldtrump for the possibility of reducing waste,” he wrote. “Mission @doge will strengthen over time because it will become a way of living throughout the government.”
The White House official, who asked for anonymity for a conversation about a change, confirmed Musk’s departure.
Musk announced his decision one day after CBS published part of the interview in which he criticized the central element of the Trump’s legislative program, saying that he was “disappointed” by what the president calls his “great beautiful bill”.
Legislation includes a combination of tax reductions and increased enforcement of immigration law. Musk described this as a “mass expenditure account”, which increases the federal deficit and “undermines the work” of his government’s performance known as Doge.
“I think the bill can be big or it can be beautiful,” said Musk. “But I don’t know if it could be both.”
Trump, on Wednesday in an oval office, defended his program, speaking of a fragile policy related to negotiating the rules.
“I am not satisfied with some aspects, but I am excited about other aspects,” he said.
Trump also suggested that more changes can be made.
“We’ll see what will happen,” he said. “It has a way to go.”
Republicans have recently pushed this remedy through the chamber and debate in the Senate.
Musk fears are divided by some Republican legislators. “I sympathize that Elon is discouraged,” said Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson.
Speaking on Wednesday at the Milwaukee Press Club party, Johnson added that he was “quite confident”, there was a sufficient opposition “to slow down this process, as long as the president, our leadership, seriously” about reducing expenses. He said that there was no pressure in which Trump could exert him to change his position.
Marshal Mike Johnson asked the senators to make the least changes in the regulations, saying that the Republicans of the Chamber achieved a “very delicate balance” that could be increased thanks to grave changes. The narrowly divided house will have to vote again on the final passage when the Senate changes the bill.
On Wednesday, Johnson thanked Musk for his work and promised that in the future he would continue more cuts of expenses, saying: “The house is willing and ready to act on the basis of dog’s arrangements.”
The White House sends some of the proposed resignations, a mechanism used to cancel previously authorized expenses, at Capitol Hill to strengthen some Doge cuts. A spokesman for the Management and Budget Bureau said that the package will cover $ 1.1 billion from Corporation of Public Broadcasting, which finances NPR and PBS and $ 8.3 billion.
Musk from time to time seemed punished with his experience working in the government.
“The federal situation of bureaucracy is much worse than I realized,” said The Washington Post. “I thought there were problems, but it is certainly a hill battle, trying to at least improve things in DC.”
He also recently said that he would reduce his political expenses because “I think I did enough.”
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Musk was previously energized by the possibility of transforming Washington. After placing at least $ 250 million for Trump’s candidate, he wore campaigns in the White House, organized his own rallies of the campaign and talked about excessive expenses as an existential crisis. There was often a flood in Trump’s praise.
“The more I met President Trump, the more I like this guy,” said Musk in February. “Honestly, I love him.”
Trump repaid his favor, describing musk as “a really great American.” When Tesla stood in the face of a decline in sales, he transformed the White House driveway into a makeshift exhibition salon to illustrate its support.
It is not clear what, if at all, it would be influenced by Musk’s comments about the law on the legislative debate, especially considering his departure from administration. In the transitional period, when his influence grew, he helped raise opposition to the center of expenses, because the country stood on the verge of closing the federal government.
His last criticism can embolden the Republicans who want larger cuts of expenses. Republican senator Utah Mike Lee published the Fox News story about Musk’s interview, while adding his own approach to the inside, saying that “it’s still time to fix it.”
“The Senate version will be more aggressive,” Lee said. “Maybe it will have it anyway. Or it won’t go.”
Only two Republicans – representatives of Warren Davidson from Ohio and Thomas Massie from Kentucky – voted against the act when the house took this measure last week.
Davidson drew attention to Musk’s comments on social media.
“I hope that the Senate will succeed with a great beautiful bill, in which the house did not hit this moment,” he wrote. “I don’t hope that someone else will limit the deficits, I know that this congress did.”
According to preliminary estimates, the Congress Budget Bureau stated that tax regulations would escalate federal deficits by $ 3.8 trillion in a decade, while changes in Medicaid, food vouchers and other services would reduce expenses by just over $ 1 trillion at the same time.
Republican House leaders say that an escalate in economic growth would allow the act neutral in terms of deficit or reducing deficit, but external guards are skeptical. The Federal Budget Committee estimates that over the next decade the Act would add $ 3 trillion dollars of debt, including interest.
