Elon Musk says he's stepping back from DOGE
Source: Business Insider
Apr 22, 2025, 5:44 PM ET
Elon Musk has announced he will step back from the White House DOGE office after spending three months trying to radically reshape the federal government and its workforce. "Starting next month, I will be allocating far more of my time to Tesla," he said, "now that the major work of establishing the Department of Government Efficiency" is done, Musk said in Tuesday's earnings call.
He said he'll continue to spend a day or two a week on government matters, "as long as it is useful," and the president wants him to do so. Musk's announcement comes on the heels of Tesla's disappointing quarterly earnings report Tuesday.
Under Musk's unofficial leadership, DOGE has targeted a wide swath of federal agencies, including dismantling the US Agency for International Development, attempting to gain access to sensitive data and payment systems at the Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department, and trying to shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Musk has also helped Trump gut the federal workforce through buyout offers to government employees, mass firings of probationary workers, and downsizing of agencies like the National Institutes of Health.
Despite its large-scale targeting of federal agencies and workers, DOGE has not come close to its savings goals. Musk first promised that his sweeping DOGE cuts would save taxpayers $2 trillion, but later downgraded that to $1 trillion, and further again to $150 billion, DOGE's claimed savings have been riddled with mistakes and corrections, including removing $4 billion from its "Wall of Receipts" in March, dropping its real estate savings by $150 million later that month, and lowering its savings claims by over $9 billion over two days in February.
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-leaving-doge-tesla-earnings-2025-4
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Scrivener7
(55,423 posts)MadameButterfly
(2,873 posts)will be doing if Elon isn't there. And of course we still need to find out where the data has gone. Elon could still be meddling from afar. or Putin.
Scrivener7
(55,423 posts)clearly the point was not reducing the cost of government. We know this because, despite the cruel and ridiculous firings, the government is costing more.
So Musk has all the data and now he doesn't need the DOGE fig leaf any more.
Blues Heron
(6,802 posts)Fuck this evil Nazi skum. Make his brand WORTHLESS
BeyondGeography
(40,424 posts)Thats so cute.
Im afraid its much bigger than that, Elon.
dhol82
(9,535 posts)Hes already fucked up the country beyond recognition. We wont recover from this mess for generations. Hes done his job.
MadameButterfly
(2,873 posts)SCOTUS being the real problem there. Everywhere else the unlawful firings could be stopped.
The current stay by SCOTUS makes it harder for workers and agencies to recover even if we win, and it implies they'll rule against us in the end after every other court rules for us.
ImNotGod
(638 posts)to kick his ass out of government. Dems need to be as obstructive as the fascists, create chaos where they can, it's just not happening.
MLWR
(283 posts)Preferably to Mars in one of his rockets, but I'd settle for anywhere but here.
Mountain Mule
(1,115 posts)Walleye
(39,752 posts)GreenWave
(11,084 posts)MadameButterfly
(2,873 posts)is Elon won't have the money to pay us back
travelingthrulife
(2,099 posts)He should be deported and all of his assets frozen until we can calculate the damage he has done.
bluestarone
(19,625 posts)He'sa out of the White House. PERIOD.
mitch96
(15,129 posts)have his hand at screwing up our country and our democracy...
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bluestarone
(19,625 posts)He's trying to make it look like he is stepping back. My personal opinion is if he says he's stepping back, then he's NOT stepping back.
Lovie777
(18,066 posts)liar.
Grokenstein
(5,964 posts)Deport li'l lord elon and his entire Department of Government Stupidity, Hubris, Idiocracy & Treason (DOGSHIT) to Mars Antarctica the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Basso8vb
(863 posts)stillcool
(33,659 posts)Buddyzbuddy
(726 posts)for the bumbling, evil racist turd that you are.
joanbarnes
(1,987 posts)William Seger
(11,548 posts)He should be forced to "step back" immediately -- a.k.a. fired -- and someone needs to start repairing the damage, ASAP. I hate to see the bastard get away with all the illegal things he did, and I wonder why people who get hurt can't sue him personally.
byronius
(7,713 posts)Did he not realize its risky to play that part?
Really. Gosh. Poor Elon.
Nobody taught him the basics.
MadameButterfly
(2,873 posts)Since he isn't actually a government official couldn't people sue him personally?
mdbl
(6,255 posts)It's time to ruin something else.
MadameButterfly
(2,873 posts)but for his switch from Democrats to Trump. Oh, i forgot about all the investigations into his business practices.
I guess he needed DOGE to quash all of those.
The country and the world are just collateral damage for 2 businessmen too greedy to make money honestly and who needed to wield power over the whole federal government to save themselves from prosecution.
republianmushroom
(19,546 posts)AntiFascist
(13,234 posts)3825-87867
(1,351 posts)Hey Elon...
byronius
(7,713 posts)Not the whole thing, just the pay-per-view for me. Want to own that event.
xuplate
(79 posts)Martin68
(25,509 posts)MadameButterfly
(2,873 posts)which could shed light on what has really been happening and maybe bring an end to Trump. I'd like to see Elon in jail for this.
Martin68
(25,509 posts)by making bogus announcements about what his companies are going to do. But collecting federal data on private citizens at this scale is a serious crime.
paulkienitz
(1,406 posts)MadameButterfly
(2,873 posts)Linda ladeewolf
(839 posts)People are still angry at Leon. The Doge boys will be more vulnerable without him. I suspect they will be stopped.
MadameButterfly
(2,873 posts)I hope you are right about DOGE being stopped. Surely a bunch of teenagers won't be calling the shots now?
Demobrat
(10,132 posts)Nobody is going to run out and buy a Tesla because youve decided its time for a little damage control.
Javaman
(63,648 posts)Chipper Chat
(10,332 posts)He can pal around with Hugeseth.
Kablooie
(18,885 posts)But its a little late.
The damage has already been done.
Botany
(73,901 posts)Musk is a shit.
MadameButterfly
(2,873 posts)This is where my hope lies. Even Republicans don't want our nuclear secrets handed over to Putin.
Botany
(73,901 posts)
. speed copier. We executed the Rosenbergs for this very thing and FBI agent got 15 life terms
for the same thing but now we have Judge Cannon giving him a pass and Merrick Garland doing
nothing too. I have witnessed with my own eyes and heard with my own ears the theft of a Presidential
election in Ohio and nothing happened.
Musk will be protected by the B.T.B..
MadameButterfly
(2,873 posts)the past doesn't have to be the future. People are waking up to the stakes.
If Smith had been allowed to prosecute the documents case Trump would have been toast. The NLRB whistleblower could lead to more whistleblowers, plus investigations. If courts won't address this, or fast enough, journalists need to.
What is the B.T.B.?
Botany
(73,901 posts)Botany =
MadameButterfly
(2,873 posts)Musk is permanently hitched to Trump's cart now. If Trump fails, investigations of Musk's companies resume, his government contracts end, and Tesla is already toast. He doesn't have a cult or an army of Brownshirts to protect him like Trump does. Lots of MAGAs actually hate him too. SCOTUS likely won't protect him either. And everyone who aligns themselves to Trump gets thrown under the bus at some point.
twodogsbarking
(13,400 posts)On second thought, skip the personal protection part.
MadameButterfly
(2,873 posts)and I would so enjoy seeing him in jail.
republianmushroom
(19,546 posts)Hopefully to never rise again.
Hope22
(3,910 posts)Forward into a jail cell!
JT45242
(3,258 posts)Apartheid Clyde will still be telling his henchmen who seem as inept as 60s Batman villain henchmen.
Seriously, this group of dropouts have more in common with the goons working for King Tut, Riddler, egg head, joker and penguin than they do to any real experts.
Kapow!
germanparlor
(15 posts)its just a business anouncement and will change nothing for the DOGE destruction. So please stop posting that over and over again.