“I'm going to do much less in the future,” he said during a speech at the Qatari Economic Forum.
When asked about the reason for this step, Musk answered: “I think I did enough.”
The agency notes that this decision may affect the election positions of Trump and Republicans. Bloomberg recalls that Musk donated about a quarter of a billion dollars to various political groups in the 2024 cycle – more than any other donor of the US election. Most of this money went to support Trump.
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Trump planned to appoint the owner of SpaceX, Tesla, social networks X Mask by the head of DOGE before the inauguration of January 20. Despite this, The mask was not provided, according to media reports, a permanent office in the western wing of the White House, How it was predicted earlier.
Despite the numerous reports that Musk is heading DOGE at the end of February The White House was introduced by Amy Glison as a temporary head of the department.
February 13, in a commentary, PEOPLE PEOPLE on terms of anonymity, two Republicans from the Mask environment said that Mask spends the night in an office building located next to the wing of the White House – just a few steps from it.
March 27 Musk in an interview Fox News He suggested that he could resign in the Trump administration at the end of May after he has a large -scale reduction in US budget deficit by $ 1 trillion.
March 31 Trump said that At some point, Doge will cease to exist, since Musk is available to him as a special civil servant for only 130 days.
April 2 Politico, citing three sources, wrote that Trump declared his team to the members of his team that Musk would leave the White House And he will return to the business. The interlocutors of journalists argue that Musk will depart “in the coming weeks” from the current public role within the Trump team. The publication writes that the president is allegedly pleased with the “technological giant”, in particular, in relation to his activities to reduce government spending, but Musk is increasingly turning into a “political burden”. On the same day, the speaker of the White House Caroline Livitt called the Media Media “garbage”.
On April 10, a group of 77 congressmen of the House of Representatives from the Democratic Party sent a letter to the White House demanding Drop the mask from DOGE.
