The tycoon Elon Musk said Sunday that the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), a controversial Wing of the US government to cut the expenses of the federal administration he created and has directed until this week, became an scapegoat.
“What began to happen was a bit unfair because, let’s say, Doge became the scapegoat of everything. So, if there was any cut, real or imaginary, everyone blamed Doge,” he told an interview with the CBS chain this Sunday.
In that sense, the executive director of Tesla has noted that in the 130 days he directed this department he ran into people who thought that Doge would prevent them from receiving their government check. “Which is completely false,” said the richest man in the world.
However, the dismantling of federal agencies by Doge this year resulted in the loss of many governmental jobs, the elimination of public programs and a series of demands.
Musk said goodbye on Friday of his government office in an act held at the White House in which the US president Donald Trump covered him with compliments for his work and in which the technological tycoon said he will continue advising the president.
“I will continue visiting him and I will be a friend and advisor to the president. I hope to be again in this incredible room,” Musk said from the oval office, where he dressed a cap that helped hide a bruise in his eye.
In his interview with CBS, Musk has said that, despite agreeing with much of what the Trump administration does, it has “opinion differences.” “I am a bit in a tighten: I don’t want to talk against the administration, but I don’t want to take responsibility for everything he does,” Musk said.
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