{"id":286,"date":"2025-05-29T13:27:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T09:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/elon-musk-steps-away-from-the-white-house\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T13:27:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T09:27:17","slug":"elon-musk-steps-away-from-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/elon-musk-steps-away-from-the-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk steps away from the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Musk waves goodbye to the Trump administration after four months of government meddling.<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n

Elon Musk\u2019s official role within the United States government is coming to an end. The billionaire Tesla CEO announced his White House departure in an X post on Wednesday night<\/a>, thanking President Donald Trump for the opportunity to \u201creduce wasteful spending\u201d by leading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe @DOGE mission will only strengthen over time as it becomes a way of life throughout the government,\u201d Musk wrote, saying that his position as a special government employee was coming \u201cto an end.\u201d<\/p>\n

Musk\u2019s departure was expected. He had announced plans earlier this month<\/a> to step away from government and spend \u201ca lot less\u201d on US political campaigns, having invested nearly $300 million into Trump\u2019s Presidential run. He\u2019s also pledged to spend more time on Tesla, with his controversial political stint having likely contributed<\/a> to the EV maker\u2019s spiralling sales<\/a>. The role of special government employee also comes with a 130-day time limit \u2014 a deadline that was fast approaching if DOGE\u2019s establishment on January 20th is considered Musk\u2019s start date.<\/p>\n

A White House official told Reuters<\/em> that Musk was being off-boarded on Wednesday night<\/a>. The publication reports that Musk didn\u2019t formally discuss his departure with Trump before announcing it on X, and that his exit was decided \u201cat a senior staff level.\u201d<\/p>\n

Musk is parting ways with the Trump administration a day after criticizing the President\u2019s \u201cOne Big Beautiful Bill\u201d in an interview with CBS<\/a>, saying the landmark tax legislation would increase the federal deficit and undermine his cost-cutting efforts at DOGE. During Trump\u2019s campaign, Musk initially pledged that DOGE would cut at least $2 trillion in federal spending before later slashing its targets to $1 trillion and then $150 billion. The DOGE website<\/a> currently claims to have saved $175 billion, but that figure should be taken with a fistful of salt given previous exaggerations<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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