Billionaire Elon Musk confirmed his departure from his office in the government of US President Donald Trump on Wednesday. According to the AFP report and BBC, TASR reports this.
Trump built the head of Tesla and SpaceX to the head of the State Administration Efficiency Office (Doga) in January when he became president. The billionaire had in about a year along with his team to reduce government spending and cancel various US agencies as a so -called special government employee.
“At a time when my defined period as a special government employee ends, I would like to thank President Donald Trump for the opportunity to reduce unnecessary expenses,“He wrote on his social network X. Musk said he believes that the agency would be” a way of functioning the whole government “. In his words, the agency will “just stronger with time”.
According to the BBC, the unnamed White House representative confirmed Musk’s departure and said that his “termination” as a special government employee will begin Wednesday evening.
Information about the planned departure of Muska from office in the government brought in early April Politico magazine referring to unnamed sources. He said at that time that Musk would soon leave office and return to business. However, this report was disproved at that time by the White House, and spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said that Musk would leave until he was completed.
Reuters claims that Doga reduced the number of civilian federal employees by almost 12 percent, or approximately 260,000 from the original 2.3 million. However, this occurred through the threats of dismissal, severance pay and offers for early retirement.
Musk’s announcement of departure from office according to CNN comes after expressing concerns about the fundamental package of tax and expenditure cuts of President Trumpreferred to as “One Big, Beautiful Bill”. In an interview with CBS, he said that this package would increase the US budget deficit and weakened the effort by the Doga.
According to AP, the entrepreneur reached much less than hoped during his work in the government. For example, it has significantly reduced its goal in reducing spending and increasingly expressing frustration from resistance to his intentions. Several times he has also come into conflicts with leading members of Trump’s government who were hindered by his efforts to reform their ministries, and for his efforts he was exposed to strong political criticismwrites ap.
