This week, Musk officially gave up the function of the boss. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which could not even be found from $ 2 trillion. [7 bln 500 mld zł] savings he originally promised.
On Thursday, Donald Trump regretted his departure, but he said that Musk would always be with us and help us “.
However, the billionaire will have to calculate the costs of his involvement in Trump's activities and a modest return on investment in the amount of $ 250 million. [937 mln zł] in the election campaign of the US President.
“I appreciate the fact that Mr. Musk has submitted the good of the country over his own profits,” the Financial Times Tom Cole, the Republican Chairman of the Budgetary Committee of the Chamber of Representatives, told the Financial Times.
According to the survey, after the announcement [powstania] Most American voters believed that Musk would use this institution to “enrich and weaken their business competitors” instead of improving the government's functioning.
Progressive groups have warned that he would “manipulate federal public procurement in favor of billionaires and their buddies” and limited regulations regarding his Tesla and SpaceX companies. Democratic legislators said that Doge is a “cover” for more sinister, selfish actions of the richest man in the world.
Early moves of the Trump administration suggested that Musk could get financial benefits. In February, a lawsuit was withdrawn by Biden's administration against SpaceX in connection with the practices of employing employees, and the regulatory bodies conducting an investigation into his company Neuralink dealing with brain implants were released.
Business Muska related to satellite internet, Starlink, was presented by the Secretary of Trade Howard Lutnicka as a potential beneficiary of the program worth $ 42 billion. [157 mld zł] broadband internet in rural areas. The presidential decree calling to create a “golden dome” defense system worth many billions of dollars in the USA seemed beneficial to Musk, due to the dominance of SpaceX in the field of rocket starts.
The liquidation of various supervisory authorities throughout the government also benefited to Musk's enterprises, and many large American companies hurried to sign contracts with Starlinek or increased expenditure on advertising in X. Starlink also signed contracts for activities in India, Pakistan and Vietnam, as well as in other countries where he wanted to develop for a long time.
However, while Doge dealt with various matters, which Musk hated, in particular expenses for international assistance and government contracts allegedly related to initiatives for diversity or “WOKE” research [przebudzonej świadomości na temat niesprawiedliwości społecznych]also caused a serious blow to the billionaire enterprises, especially Tesla.
At one point during his term of office as the head of Doge, Tesla's shares fell by 45 percent. compared to the highest level of last year. There were also reports that the company's management intended to replace Musk as a general director. The 53-year-old's property was decreased by tens of billions of dollars, and his dealerships were set on fire and the threats of death fell.
Some of Tesla's image damages, which until recently was the main source of Musk's income, may be permanent. “80 percent of Tesla cars in the United States were sold in districts with blue postal codes [utożsamianych z głosującymi na Demokratów]” – said a former employee of the company.” Of course, this group of voters was deeply offended. “
Fire in the Tesla Motor Show, in which 16 cars burned down, Rome, Italy, March 31, 2025.
Starlink has lost lucrative contracts in Canada and Mexico because of Musk's political activity, and 11 million users left in Europe itself.
Government regulatory bodies also conducted investigations regarding Tesla and SpaceX, and the Trump administration continued to lift tax breaks for electric vehicles and began a trade war of which Musk was a definite opponent and which threatened to decrease the sale of cars.
In the political arena, few people enjoyed Doge. Democrats were outraged by a limitation of foreign help and access to 20 -year -old Musk supporters to the State Treasury payment system, as well as the dismissal of thousands of federal employees. Republicans looked crookedly at attempts to reduce defense expenditure. Real supporters of the restrictive budget policy were embittered that Musk could only reduce expenses by a few billion dollars. Bill Gates even accused Musk of “killing the poorest children in the world” through his actions related to dog.
Musk, accustomed to the fact that he always gets what he wants in his enterprises, fought for control. At various times of his term, he clashed with the treasury secretary Scott Bessent, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Transport Sean Duffy and Tsar trade in Peter Navarro, as well as with several other high officials.
Far from focusing on eliminating waste, Musk entered the government with a “trip of revenge” against the bureaucracy, which the billionaire began to perceive as an enemy of innovation, said a former Musk's senior collaborator, emphasizing the frustration of the entrepreneur related to the provisions on Covid-19 in California, allegedly disregarding him by Biden administration and anger caused by the administration of Biden and anger. his daughter's sex.
David Sacks, Trump advisor for artificial intelligence and cryptocurrencies, the influential form of the world of technology, “introduced [Muska] In a very, very right -wing way of thinking, “this person added, to such an extent that” he was to help this administration in destroying the “Woke” program.
Neither Musk nor Sacks responded to requests for comment.
Musk, who claimed that Doge only played a “advisory role”, expressed this week frustration because of using it as a “scapegoat” for unpopular cuts, which was determined by the White House and secretaries of the office [prezydenta].
“I think Trump was very clever and allowed Doge to take over all the headlines as a traditional political scapegoat,” said Sahil Laveingia, head of the start-up trade that worked for Doge until the beginning of this month. He added that Musk could also want to attribute merit for the liquidation of USAID and other moves, but eventually attracted undesirable attention.
– If someone is really angry, he is quieter [niż Elon Musk] – said Lavying, who joined the initiative to improve processes in the government. – Bad things are done quietly.
The noise around Musk, whose ability to dominate the message cycle with one post on its social networking site X competed with the dominance of Trump on the first pages of newspapers, also frustrated administration.
This week, the deputy chief of the White House staff Stephen Miller wrote on X to indirectly reject the criticism of the billionaire at the characteristic Trump Tax Act, which he criticized for the lack of deficit reduction and not to do the dog's cuts in the code.
Doge, once almost synonymous with Musk, is currently blending into the rest of the government. During the Thursday press conference, the spokeswoman for the White House Karoline Leavitt said that after Musk's departure, the office secretaries would “continue to cooperate with Doge employees who were employed as political nominated in all these agencies.”
She added: “All members of the President's office and the president himself are the leaders of the Doge.”
Doge goals have also become definitely more mundane. Tom Krause, Muska's ally, who joined the Doge and was employed in the Treasury Department, announced this week Congress employees about the improvements of the IRS application interfaces [agencji rządowej zajmującej się ściąganiem podatków w USA] and customer service, according to a person familiar with this matter. Other Doge employees conduct an audit of IT contracts – the work that Laveingia compares to the one performed by McKinsey consultants [giganta zajmującego się doradztwem strategicznym największym firmom na świecie].
Freeled with restrictions related to being a government employee, Musk is becoming more and more threatened to become a salt in Trump's eye.
Shortly after the departure from Doge, he criticized the White House, this time for the plan to abolish tax breaks to pure energy.
– Teddy Roosevelt had a great saying: “Speak quietly, but have a large stick with you,” said FT Fred Thiel, General Director of the company Mara Holdings dealing with the Bitcoin extraction. – Perhaps Elon's approach was slightly different.
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