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https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-doge-plan-turmoil-2020305
Elon Musk's plan for the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) may be in disarray following a number of changes to the initiative in recent days.
Bill McGinley, who was appointed DOGE's legal counsel in December, is planning to return to the private sector, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
In a statement to the newspaper, McGinley did not mention Musk but said: "I support President Trump, Vice President Vance, and the great teams in the White House and across the administration 100%."
The White House has been contacted for comment via email. Musk has been contacted via email to X (formerly Twitter), the social media platform he owns.
McGinley's planned departure comes on the heels of Vivek Ramaswamy's exit amid reports of a rift with Musk and other incoming staff. Trump had tapped billionaires Musk and Ramaswamy to head DOGE, a nongovernmental task force assigned to find ways to slash federal spending and make the federal government more efficient.
But among the executive orders Trump signed on his first day in office was one that officially integrated DOGE into the federal government. The order renamed the U.S. Digital Service as the U.S. DOGE Service. The Digital Service was created by President Barack Obama in 2014 to modernize the government's approach to technology.
DOGE has already drawn lawsuits challenging its operations.
Trump's executive order said DOGE's aim was "to implement the President's DOGE Agenda, by modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity."
That is a much narrower goal than the sweeping mission, which Musk has touted, to massively slash spending and overhaul the federal government.
Musk and Ramaswamy pledged in an op-ed published by the Journal in November to significantly trim the federal budget and oversee "mass headcount reductions across the federal bureaucracy."
Elon Musk's plan for the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) may be in disarray following a number of changes to the initiative in recent days.
Bill McGinley, who was appointed DOGE's legal counsel in December, is planning to return to the private sector, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
In a statement to the newspaper, McGinley did not mention Musk but said: "I support President Trump, Vice President Vance, and the great teams in the White House and across the administration 100%."
The White House has been contacted for comment via email. Musk has been contacted via email to X (formerly Twitter), the social media platform he owns.
McGinley's planned departure comes on the heels of Vivek Ramaswamy's exit amid reports of a rift with Musk and other incoming staff. Trump had tapped billionaires Musk and Ramaswamy to head DOGE, a nongovernmental task force assigned to find ways to slash federal spending and make the federal government more efficient.
But among the executive orders Trump signed on his first day in office was one that officially integrated DOGE into the federal government. The order renamed the U.S. Digital Service as the U.S. DOGE Service. The Digital Service was created by President Barack Obama in 2014 to modernize the government's approach to technology.
DOGE has already drawn lawsuits challenging its operations.
Trump's executive order said DOGE's aim was "to implement the President's DOGE Agenda, by modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity."
That is a much narrower goal than the sweeping mission, which Musk has touted, to massively slash spending and overhaul the federal government.
Musk and Ramaswamy pledged in an op-ed published by the Journal in November to significantly trim the federal budget and oversee "mass headcount reductions across the federal bureaucracy."
