Musk announced his departure a day after an interview clip showed him saying Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill “undermines” DOGE.

Elon Musk is refocusing on his businesses after his time in Washington, facing challenges at Tesla, where profits have plummeted amid rising competition and brand damage. X, formerly Twitter, is striving to revive its advertising revenue.

President Trump posted that it was Elon Musk's “last day, but not really" at DOGE ahead of a press conference Friday that he announced via Truth Social.

Some members of the DOGE operation are expected to continue their government-cutting roles inside agencies, while others who signed on to be DOGE’s “small-government revolutionaries ” are expected to leave their temporary gigs and head back to the corporate world.

The Tesla mogul's inability to find a fraction of the fraud he originally promised made his thank-you to Trump a ripe target for internet snark.

By Alexandra Ulmer (Reuters) -Without billionaire Elon Musk in the Trump administration, his cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency project is likely to sputter out, a former DOGE staffer said in his first interview since leaving the team.

Musk’s comment in an interview with CBS News exposed a growing rift in MAGA, and now other conservatives are piling on. Some have attacked the bill focused on Trump’s domestic agenda as it heads to the Senate, while others have questioned why the GOP-controlled Congress hasn’t done more work on its own to cut spending.