DOGE, Elon Musk and Trump
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As Elon Musk departs DOGE, what do you think about the first four months of the department’s federal spending cuts?
President Trump pulled billionaire Jared Isaacman’s NASA nomination amid scrutiny over past Democratic donations and tensions with Elon Musk.
Elon Musk sat down for a taped interview with CBS Sunday Morning host David Pogue, a wide-ranging discussion of Trump-related topics, including the president's "big, beautiful" spending bill and Musk's apparently slowed-down Department of Government Efficiency.
“DOGE’s over-promising and underperforming results damaged not only Musk’s reputation but also the standing of the Trump administration as a whole, and beyond that, probably the reputations and chances for success of future governmental reform cost-cutting measures,” presidential historian David Pietrusza told the Washington Examiner.
New York Times columnist David Brooks implied that Tesla CEO Elon Musk may belong on a list of history's greatest murderers after DOGE cuts allegedly led to hundreds of thousands of deaths.
The Tesla DEO allegedly "shoved" Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent during a heated exchange, according to Steve Bannon.
Elon Musk may have been one of President Donald Trump’s closest aides, but they didn’t always see eye to eye. The recently departed DOGE chief revealed in an interview with CBS News’ Sunday Morning that he wasn’t always on board with the Trump administration’s agenda.