Elon Musk, having accomplished none of the goals he announced at the beginning of his tenure and with the national debt higher than when he started, is leaving his post at DOGE months earlier than originally planned. The billionaire says he intends to use his newfound downtime to spend more time crying on Twitter and ignoring his 13+ fatherless children.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5322954-musk-thanks-trump-end-doge/
Elon Musk expressed gratitude to President Trump in a Wednesday message marking the end of his special government employee status, the latest sign of his declining involvement in the White House.
In a post on X, Musk thanked Trump for the opportunity to lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a panel focused on dramatically slashing the size of the federal budget and workforce.
“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,” Musk wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter before he purchased it in 2022.
“The @DOGE mission will only strengthen over time as it becomes a way of life throughout the government.”
As a special government employee, Musk was limited to 130 days in service to Trump and spent much of the start of the new administration close by the president’s side.
“Offboarding begins tonight,” a White House official told NewsNation Wednesday night.
Musk made clear during the start of his DOGE tenure that he planned to be a force in politics in some capacity after the end of his official government status. But as Musk and DOGE’s mission fell by the wayside to Trump’s tax cut package, which is expected to add trillions to the national debt, the tech billionaire has pivoted harder back toward his business empire.
“Back to spending 24/7 at work and sleeping in conference/server/factory rooms,” Musk said Saturday in response to a post on X about the platform’s recent outages.
“I must be super focused on X/xAI and Tesla (plus Starship launch next week), as we have critical technologies rolling out,” he added, referring to a launch planned by SpaceX, his space company.
Shares of Tesla soared Tuesday in response to Musk’s new attention after the market opened following Memorial Day. Later that day, Musk expressed frustration with Trump’s major policy bill in a clip of a CBS interview to be aired in full Sunday.
“I was, like, disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit … and it undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing,” Musk said in a preview of an interview set to air this weekend on “CBS Sunday Morning.”
rump waived off Musk’s criticism when asked about his comments Wednesday, defending the measure while acknowledging it includes provisions he doesn’t like, but are necessary to pass Congress.
“We will be negotiating that bill, and I’m not happy about certain aspects of it, but I’m thrilled by other aspects of it,” Trump said. “That’s the way it goes. It’s very big, it’s the big, beautiful, but the beautiful is because of all the things that we have.”
>>1408535 (OP)>As a special government employee, Musk was limited to 130 days in service to Trump and spent much of the start of the new administration close by the president’s side.Wow musk got really btfo here, holding the position for as long as he was legally allowed to
>“I was, like, disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit … and it undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing,”
IT DOESN'T INCREASE THE DEFICIT. REPEATING THIS LIE DOESN'T MAKE US BELIEVE IT.
They said the same shit about Trump's first tax bill. And we said the increased economic growth would more than pay for it.
And we were right. Think about how much worse the Biden deficit/inflation would be if we hadn't cut taxes for WORKING CLASS AMERICANS. When Trump says he is going to remove the deficit, he MEANT it.
>>1408587Deficit spending went up every year of Trump's first term. Every. Single. Year.
Not just the total debt, but the yearly deficit.
Crescendoing in 2020 with the largest jump in deficit spending in decades.
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/national-deficit/
>>1408587>wedo i have to say it again, esl shill?
>>1408587>They said the same shit about Trump's first tax billThe tax bill that did increase the deficit and is supposed to be getting paid off now by tax hikes they're trying to prevent with this shitshow cause uh-oh, Trump's in office a term later than they were expecting when they were assigning someone to hold the bag?
>Think about how much worse the Biden deficit/inflation would be if we hadn't cut taxes for WORKING CLASS AMERICANS.Deficit and inflation are completely opposite problems and I want you to explain to me how Trump's tax cuts did jack to keep down the deficit under Biden.
Tax cuts increase the deficit. Period.
>>1408591>>1408597>But the deep state published numbers saying orange man bad!At this point, if you believe anything said by anyone other than Trump, you're going to be shilling lies. Trump called out the swamp, then a leftist tried to SHOOT HIM. That proves he was telling the truth. Trump exaggerates, sure, but on the big stuff I'm not sure I can find a single time he's mislead REAL AMERICANS.
And even if the deficit did increase after the tax bill, then it's clearly just because he was gaining leverage over China for the trade war.
>>1408669>At this point, if you believe anything said by anyone other than TrumpGood thing the numbers in the link you responded to showing the deficit going up every year Trump of Trump's first term came from Trump's own Treasury department.
>And even if the deficit did increase after the tax bill, then it's clearly just becauseWhen you hedge like this, it makes it obvious you're not even drinking your own Kool Aid.
>>1408671You at least gotta hope that they're not actually stupid enough to believe their own shillslop
They're still incredibly fucking dumb though, so who knows.
>>1408669replace the word trump with putin and the word americans to russians.
>>1408597>Tax cuts increase the deficitSpending increases the deficit. Tax cuts are supposed to be accompanied with budget cuts to pass the savings to the tax payer. No amount of taxation will fix deficit spending
>>1408719>replace the word trump with putin and the word americans to russians.replace the word putin with trump and the word russians to americans.
OK what now?
>>1408745>Spending increases the deficitDepends on what you're spending on. Spending on the IRS decreases the deficit.
>Tax cuts are supposed to be accompanied with budget cuts to pass the savings to the tax payerIf you're cutting people's benefits and services, you're passing costs onto the taxpayer, not savings. Also "supposed to be". Also last time they were passed with tax increases (delayed obviously, so a later admin would be left holding the bag, whoops).
>No amount of taxation will fix deficit spendingSpending isn't inherently something that needs to be fixed. The government needs to spend money to provide services and procure supplies. The government spending money is not a bad thing. If you mean no amount of taxation will fix the deficit, that's obviously wrong. A greater amount of taxation than the deficit would fix the deficit. Although obviously bringing down the deficit should not be done through taxation alone. It should be done through a combination of taxation, tax enforcement, cuts to less essential programs, and monetary policy.
