Elon Musk, the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, says his time has come to an end in service to the federal government, where he was in charge of cutting waste, fraud, and abuse, and where he battled the political machine that was bent on out-of-control spending.
“As my scheduled time as a Special Government Employee comes to an end, I would like to thank President @realDonaldTrump for the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending. The @DOGE mission will only strengthen over time as it becomes a way of life throughout the government,” Musk wrote on X.
The change was planned for weeks due to his status as a special, unpaid government employee, which limits employment to 130 days.
He announced his departure on May 28 and said he will focus more on his companies, particularly SpaceX and Tesla, though the White House and Musk have indicated that DOGE’s cost-cutting efforts will continue without his daily involvement.
Musk may still influence policy indirectly, despite scaling back his political involvement.
Musk for President 2028!
He’s a foreigner, nope
Well, Well, Let’s see..Obama wasn’t an American by birth neither..It was all lies.
Prove it moron, Musk was born in S Africa, well proven. Go back to your little Birther conspiracy group and cry.
Sadly, he is not a natural born Citizen.
But I am pretty sure Vance is going to run
Thankfully that can’t happen.
We congratulate him on what he DID accomplished with the help of other more trustworthy government people who was willing to work alongside him. Whatever he saw and whatever he did to improve the USA, I think he saw stuff he would rather not have to deal with as a President..He cleaned out alot of “GARBAGE” and alot of untrusted people. WE wish for the best on his next accomplishments.
Well… There goes doge. I’m sure congress isn’t going to add funding back in to all those programs that were temporarily defunded.
By the way. We’re so far in debt that it will take 390 years to pay it off if congress passed balanced budgets forever and dedicated $100 billion a year to pay off the existing debt
Thanks Elon for stepping up to the plate and offering advice on ways to minimize a financial catastrophe within the federal government due to complete out of control spending on foolishness.
Hopefully the hate and destruction from the lefties who thrive on government waste will cease the burning and destruction of the fine automobiles you have created just out of spite and they will shift their focus on their own party leaders who have guided them over a cliff.
It was truly sad to watch rich and influential Hollywood stars having their cars towed to recycle for destruction to just to prove their ignorance and intolerance to free advice on ways to improve government efficiency and minimize wasteful spending of which matters little to them who get wealthy from pretending to be somebody.
It was a worthwhile view of how the Democratic party imploded just at the idea of someone even looking into ways to save taxpayer dollars.
The smart voters will stray from the party rulers but the majority will follow.
And good riddance. There can be no doubt that Mr. Musk deeply regrets ever getting involved with government. Just think about it. He overpromised and underdelivered, he destroyed his personal reputation which was previously held in high regard, and he showed himself to be ineffective and immature. He destroyed the brand of his car company by alienating the liberal half of the nation that would by his products. He has been rightly accused for causing the suffering and death of children around the world by starvation due to the USAID cuts. His Board of Directors was actively seeking a replacement for him, and many of his employees secretly hold him in contempt for his actions. His addiction to Ketamine has been publicly exposed, and his strange personal life along with his bent for eugenics has been made public knowledge. Oh, and he’s also $300 million lighter after contributing to the Trump Organization. That ain’t nuthin’.
Perhaps he has learned his lesson – that government is a cooperative effort that can’t be run in the same autocratic fashion as his businesses. Hopefully he has departed from the scene, never to return.
The American people will support a downsizing of the federal government and its expenditures if the need to do so is made clear to them, and if they are asked to participate in the effort as a patriotic undertaking. People understand shared sacrifice when needed and when done in a fair, equitable, and honest manner. But when a Tech Bro with a bejeweled chainsaw gets up on stage wearing a T-shirt with multiple hats and claims to be effectively cutting government, people are turned off. This is serious business, not entertainment.
In the end, Musk touched the hot stove and his fingers were badly burned. The hard-earned respect people had for him is gone, never to be recovered. And as predicted when he first arrived on scene, he did not last. As the old Chinese proverb goes, two tigers cannot live on one mountain top. And as we have observed many times, anyone who tries to steal the show from Trump will not be around for long.
But still, it seems quite certain that someday, and probably soon, Trump will see fit to honor Musk with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, desecrating that sacred honor once again.
Why do you ramble on with nothing but lies, Dawg?
It’s what CNN MSNBC and “The View” tells him.
Damn, dog. That is a world of NPC talking points crammed into a single comment. You have been saving them up.
I come here to say what I think, and on this topic there’s a lot to be said.
I get it, you think you’re Macbeth:
“Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing…”
You can’t fool us Whidbey. We all know NPCs don’t think. They only regurgitate narratives.
Good entertainment though. Great content for getting through the work day.
Nothing like seeing retards (i mean democrats) self destruct while also lacking any self awareness to make better choices. Good stuff! Keep it up circus dog!
“Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.”
Shakespeare.
And….
Here you are, reminding us all that your word is worth nothing. I guess you do actually read my comments.
Wow I guess it really gets under your skin that I read only some of your stuff. The short ones are tolerable but the long, enumerated diatribes take more time than I wish to waste.
Pretty soon, just like many of the others (Jefferson, Forkner, et al), you will eventually tire of wasting your time on excessive comments, and go away.
USAID was audited several dozen times in 2024 by independent inspectors general. You may not agree with their stated goals, but I don’t think there’s much room to say that there was wide spread and massive fraud and abuse. I think it’s accurate to say that Trump won the narrative on the organization, but it doesn’t reflect anything about the reality of the organization.
Whidbey Thedog, what the hell you smoking? Elon did a great service to our country, obviously you prefer those that are trying to destroy it.
It’s OK to admit that as a special government employee his time is legally limited to 130 days, of course that doesn’t fit the narrative and completely undermines everything you regurgitate from those who provide your talking points.
We owe that man much gratitude for getting the ball rolling and showing it IS possible to find and cut wasteful government spending. Now if we could only do that in our own state.
Musk figured out that the corruption is so deep that it’s futile. The right side of the isle is spineless and could care less about what the people voted for.
Unfortunately, you are correct.
sigh.. you are correct.. it’s not just Princess Lisa who’s useless.
He and his DOGE team did an incredible job of peeling back the layers of fraud, waste and abuse of the US government. The only ones not appalled at what he and his team found were those were benefitting from the thefts from social security, USAID and so many other programs. If only our congressional delegation had the integrity and fortitude to place the DOGE findings into law and start saving the taxpayers’ money. Alas, their stomach ailment will prevent this from happening. They have no guts.
I would like to think Mr. Musk set up a group of people to keep up what needs to be finished.
He did, and they report on X.
too bad i got banned from there. They won’t tell me why. I’ve appealed 5 times now.
I’ve been banned from X and they won’t tell me what the exact “offense” was.
Elon Musk’s DOGE is under scrutiny for claims of widespread Social Security fraud, used to justify proposed reforms. DOGE claimed massive fraudulent payments, but data suggests fraud rates are significantly lower than claimed. The Social Security Administration reports a small fraction of calls and payments are linked to fraud, contradicting DOGE’s assertions.
Suzanne his 115 day contract is up fake news & babbling on & on clowns suck, I look so forward to seeing what happens to all our GOD mocking oath breakers & all who went along when we meet up on the other side to see how we all did? Hold the line like JESUS did all
DOGE did one thing, very well. It demonstrated to the public at large that US Government data systems are awful, and they are easy to manipulate to allow fraud.
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Now, closing those vulnerabilities… I do not have much confidence that will happen any time soon.
Well, I know for a fact that several of the DOGE cuts impacted IRS efforts to do just that. And as you may know, if you are a IT-savvy person, upgrading these types of massive database systems can be extremely risky and very, very expensive. It will take many billions to update the old COBOL systems still being used to run the government’s everyday business. And more DOGE cuts are not the way to solve this problem.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA…
Oh, wait, you’re serious. Let me point and laugh at you even harder.
wrong as usual.
If you are not reading my comments and do not care, why do you constantly reply to my comments?
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Now, as to your statement about cost to upgrade IT systems, you are partly right. It can be very pricey.
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Then again, the IT tools and server systems available today are significantly easier to program and maintain, have vastly improved query capabilities, and can import COBOL programmed databases seamlessly. Companies like SalesForce (as an example, I am not personally fond of their systems) can import and duplicate your existing data structures for pennies, compared to maintaining the existing system. And, incrementally adding capability is a piece of cake for these companies. Major companies across the world rely on software companies like that, but for some reason, the Federal Government seems to think they need a system built from scratch.
Excellent work Elon! Now you can put your demon armor back on and refocus on continuing to build your empire back up. After having an inside look of the corruption in how our money has been wasted funding foreign affairs, you will have better tools available to gain better tracking in this ever hastening treadmill of life.
Will I benefit from any of your actions? Maybe, but probably not. However you dear Elon shall reap all the material benefits of this world. I hope you continue to do what is right and continue to make those pesky leftists seethe.
It’s amazing how much two businessman can get done running the country. Our politicians have proven to be incompetent and lacking the fortitude to actually do the job that they promised to do. What was stopping our senators from stopping the waste and fraud. I believe it was the lobbyists and the love of power. We now know that they could be been doing it all along.
Good riddance. That was turning into a side show. In reality Trump can hire anyone for that position but no one would have the name recognition of Musk. It was the path to maximum exposure
Elon is a huge dork, and I predicted that Trumpworld would knife him in the back as soon as they had to deal with him on a personal level. The anti-Musk leaks will continue to trickle out off Steven Miller and JD Vance’s press teams at least until midterms. What glorious queens the MAGA boys are…
Republicans want $858 million for ICE bonuses. That works out to $42k per employee in addition to salary. Talk about waste!