Much had been heard about the entry of Mask in Trump’s government. According to the Donald TrumpMusk would put a class in the government’s finances, and from the first moment they had implied that staying in the position of the government’s efficiency ministry was temporary.
Finally on Wednesday (28.5.2025), he announced that he was leaving the government, but leaving Donald Trump and the US president’s handling.
“As the scheduled period I worked for as a special government official is coming to an end, I would like to thank President Donald Trump for giving me the opportunity to reduce the waste,” the businessman said via X.
“The mission of @doge will only be strengthened over time, as it will become a way of life throughout the government,” he added, referring to the government’s efficiency team.
As everyone shows, he does not leave the best impression of the Trump government, while the two strong men’s relations are probably in their worst phase.
“Honestly, I was disappointed when I saw the colossal bill on expenditure, which not only does not reduce the deficit but increases it, and undermines the work done by the Doge team,” Tesla’s chief executive said in an interview with CBS. Delegates last week.
The big law, which passed through the House of Representatives with a single vote last week, incorporates much of Donald Trump’s inner agenda for tax cuts, immigration and other issues.
Musk himself was one of Trump’s main financiers in the 2024 elections, and this year he had promised Trump’s advisers that he would give $ 100 million to Republican teams before the 2026 interim elections.
Musk seems to be holding his billions for himself, but Trump probably doesn’t need him anymore …
Croesus Musk may have regretted his involvement with politics: “I think I probably spent a little more time to politics,” Musk said in an interview this week at Ars Technica.
When asked by reporters about Musk’s criticism on Wednesday, Trump refused to respond immediately. He defended the bill, while recognizing that he did not like every aspect, and praised the efforts of the Republicans to promote it. He never mentioned Musk’s name.
However, Steven Miller, a White House Deputy Chief on Policy, responded to Musk on social media without naming him. Miller claimed that the bill would reduce the deficit – despite the fact that multiple independent analyzes support the opposite – and noted that the cuts made by Mr Musk’s team were not related to the expenditure bill.
According to the same report, before Trump’s journey to the Middle East, Musk reacted to an ongoing agreement between an opposing artificial intelligence company and the United Arab Emirates to build a huge data center in Abu Dhabi, according to a White official.
Musk complained to David Sacks, a consultant by the President of Artificial Intelligence, and to other White House officials on Abu Dhabi’s work on Openai – an organization he founded with Sam Altman, with whom they have come.
He also expressed legal concerns in general for other artificial intelligence companies and sought to include his own company, XAI, in the agreement, although it was not finally included.
The Openai Agreement follows a plan secured between the Trump government and the United Arab Emirates to build an artificial intelligence campus in Abu Dhabi.
Musk accompanied the president on his trip to the Middle East, but Trump rarely mentioned his name publicly. And foreign officials in the Gulf seemed to be more interested in looking for Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkov, despite Musk.
Indeed, at some point Musk was seen waiting in the reception queue to tighten Trump’s hand.
“Back to spending 24 hours a day, 7 days a week,” Musk, Managing Director of Tesla and SpaceX, wrote on X on Saturday. “I have to be extremely focused on X/Xai and Tesla,” he wrote.