Musk has announced he will step down from DOGE in May.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-gives-doge-update-elon-musk-says-hell-step-down-may-2053368 Donald Trump Gives DOGE Update as Elon Musk Says He'll Step Down in May
President Donald Trump provided an update on the future of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) after its architect, Elon Musk, revealed last week that he plans to step down as a special government employee by the end of May.
Trump was asked by a reporter Monday in the Oval Office, "Is DOGE going to keep operating even without Elon Musk?"
The president replied, "I can't tell you that. I will say this a lot of the people working with DOGE are the secretaries, the heads of the various agencies, and they've learned a lot. And they're dealing with the DOGE people. I think some of them may try to keep the DOGE people."
He concluded, "At a certain point, I think it will end."
Musk is a special government employee, a category for temporary federal workers who are only supposed to work 130 days out of 365 in their roles.
On Friday, Musk told Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier that he believes he can complete the goal of slashing $1 trillion in government spending "within that time frame [the end of May]."
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So he's stepping down from leadership of the agency that's not an agency, that he's legally not the leader of?
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>>1397320 >Is that anything like how he stopped being CEO of Twitter a couple years ago? Probably about the same.
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>>1397319 >>1397319 >Musk told Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier that he believes he can complete the goal of slashing $1 trillion in government spending Step One: Say you slashed $1 trillion in government spending. Offer no evidence.
Step Two: Right wing retards believe you unquestioningly, then get distracted by whatever shiny object Trump dangles in front of them and wander off
There is no step three
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>Elon yesterday: we've got one chance. if we don't win this fight, civilization is at stake - the future of humanity! >Elon today: ah well, I'll probably get it down to a trillion cut in spending, anyway.. see you guys around, lol
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this is the point in every DOGE thread where I point out that the USDS was created by Obama in 2014, as US Digital Service, an office of the executive branch that answers only to the president. It was renamed USDOGES by Trump in January. It's the same service.
Obama's first hire was a British employee of Google, whose task was to update the
healthcare.gov website.
So fuck off with your lies and bullshit.
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>>1397327 fuck off you formulaic faggot
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>>1397327 >It's the same service It's neither the same service in name nor function. Two services sharing the same "position" across time is fucking irrelevant in much the same way you don't suddenly become a whore when you kill one and wear her skin.
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>>1397330 he knows that but he won't acknowledge it because it goes against his programming
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>>1397326 I really think Trump can crush the entire Republican party for decades to come if he doesn't accomplish anything meaningful and his mistakes and missteps keep adding up. "What if we take Greenland?" It's so soul devastatingly retarded. All their hopes are hanging on him - if he leaves office on a bad note, having accomplished next to nothing major despite having complete control, there will be no wind left in the party for generations to come.
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>>1397319 It's funny that Musk could resign as CEO of Tesla tomorrow and the arsons would stop on the cars, but he doesn't seem to want that.
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>>1397333 There's already no wind once he dies. They're so completely devoted to him and him alone the second he's gone they're gonna descend into infighting over who gets to be the successor like fucking Imperial China. Doesn't help they're already pissing off their voters and proving all the dems saying they were gonna sink the economy right.
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>>1397337 If there's a strong economic recovery or a boom, and manufacturing returns, people like Vance could carry that momentum forward. It it's more retaliatory tariffs, and shit for brain Trump ideas like annexing Greenland, while economic recession continues and people like Musk continue dropping out of their roles "ushering in the golden age", Trump will be the last gasp of this fucking stupid party of retarded incompetents.
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>>1397324 he documents it on
doge.gov which is better what you leftists losers have been doing for the past decade wasting money I hope you get thrown into an incineration camp for being a parasite.
Anonymous
>>1397345 Except
Doge.gov 's numbers literally do not add up. Seriously, go check for yourself. The cuts they cite do not match the "total savings" they advertise.
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>>1397328 >>1397330 >>1397332 The United States Digital Service (USDS) is a technology unit housed within the Executive Office of the President of the United States and established in 2014 by congressional appropriations.
In January 2025, according to Executive Order 14158, it was publicly renamed and reorganized as the United States DOGE Service, which includes the self-styled Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Stop questioning Trump's EOs, when they are a matter of public record, you morons.
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>>1397345 Behold, Step Two
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>>1397366 >Sure he changed the core function of the department, renamed it, and handed it over to Elon Musk with no oversight, but it's exactly the same thing as Obummer did! >...Except it was bad when Obummer did it and good now! Even though it's the exact same thing! Nobody believes your talking point, not even you
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>>1397352 how so? contracts is estimated 25billion saved grants is 33billion and leases are 400million.
the first page alone of contracts is close to 7billion in cuts.
It adds up if you can properly read.
The 140billion includes asset sales which isn't listed as a category.
https://doge.gov/savings "Contracts
Displaying 7279 contract terminations totaling ~$25B in savings."
look at the individual categories they add up.
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>>1397373 They don't. Add them yourself. I did when it was at 55 billion and only got to 14 billion.
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>>1397375 buddy are you able to read.
it isn't 140billion that's everything including categories that ISN"T written on the site
Each category by itself adds up.
25billion in contracts
33billion in grants
400million in leases.
The 140billion number includes asset sales which ISN"T on the site and imo probably exaggerated. but the invididual categories add up.
If you click on total savings the first page of the biggest contract cuts already adds up to 14billion which is over half of the list.
The reason it doesn't add up for you is because you're looking at the 140billion on the top and thinking its everything included in the three categories which it isn't. and says so in the text right under it.
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>>1397378 If it isn't on the site why should I believe them? I thought this was supposed to be transparent as possible?
Seriously you can't just be like "here's all the things that anyone with a FOIA can verify. As for the rest uh, trust me it's all the rest of it :)". Provide some fucking receipts to prove you don't just increase the number to whatever makes it seems like you're on track for your goal.
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>>1397381 "Combination of asset sales, contract/lease cancellations and renegotiations, fraud and improper payment deletion, grant cancellations, interest savings, programmatic changes, regulatory savings, and workforce reductions."
then don't but its saying that literally right under that, you're the one who didn't read the text.
You can't put savings from workforce reduction on a list like this, plus asset sales and everything after grant cancellation isn't on the site.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/28/us/politics/trump-doge-federal-job-cuts.html you can look it up yourself, I still don't see it adding up to 70billion but there's nearly 300k federal worker cuts coming up. I'm assuming that's going to be the main thing that makes up for the difference
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>>1397386 So they didn't actually do it yet, but they're still counting it?
The number is completely unsupported. It's arbitrary.
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>>1397387 Nta, but if I have a 10/mo subscription and I cancel it, I just saved $120 for the year.
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>>1397388 But in this case they didn't even cancel it yet. And they refuse to actually show the bill showing how much it makes. It is literally "Source: Dude trust me"
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>>1397388 Let me actually rephrase this to align with what I'm looking at right now on the doge website.
If I have an agreement to lease a car for $10/Mo for 1 more year, and I cancel the agreement, I just saved $120
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>>1397389 >And they refuse to actually show the bill showing how much it makes. It is literally "Source: Dude trust me" What are you talking about? I'm looking at their leases right now and it says stuff like lease X, costs Y yearly for a savings of Z, and when I calculate it, I can see (in this case) the lease was 7 years left
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>>1397392 Except for the fucking issue that the numbers don't add up to their total. That remaining like 90 billion in savings has no receipts.
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>>1397389 60billion is accounted for. the other 80 is in asset sales and cost reductions. its not their fault american literacy rates is so bad.
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>>1397391 Except again, you didn't actually cancel the agreement yet. Not to mention cutting employees is dicey for savings because you need to wait to see if those cuts have resulted in reduced effectiveness that doesn't save shit.
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>>1397394 >the other 80 is in asset sales and cost reductions Which they don't show or cite anywhere on the site. So basically "dude, trust me".
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>>1397396 if only you expected so much transparency when biden was in office you're just being a nitpicking nancy whose looking for excuses at this point
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>>1397393 Now you are just flip flopping on what you are complaining about.
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>>1397394 >the other 80 is in asset sales and cost reductions I mean, it's doable. Biden was selling off the border wall, after all. Maybe trump can auction off the bicycle Biden fell off of, or the stair ramp biden fell down, or the stage Biden fell down on... I cant really think of anything else that's tangible that Biden actually built which is worth any money
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>>1397400 based off the nyt post about 300k federal jobs are estimated to be cut, at the average of 106k per employee that's 32billion in savings probably a bit more given they cut some pretty crazy projects. I could see asset sales combined with that adding up to it tbh.
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>>1397324 Step Three: Give what little money you actually did save straight to Israel
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>>1397399 Anon my primary complaint is that their numbers don't add up. Saying "and the remaining few dozen billion is this! No, you can't actually have direct citations for what they are like the other categories. Just trust me."
>>1397398 Sorry but Musk was the one who insisted on 100% transparency and then promptly doesn't cite where more than half of his numbers are from.
smelling kind of musky in here
Too late. Musk brand is toxic, permanently
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>>1397486 It's funny how he won't resign as CEO of Tesla to save the share price.
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What fraud did he even find? Anytime he's in front of the cameras talking about his government role, it's fraud this and fraud that. If he found any fraud he would have shouted it from the rooftops to anyone who would listen, and all we got, was....>that there exists an SSN database that has historical entries for dead people who used to be on SSN
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>>1397601 Everyone knows the real goal is to "retire all government employees" and he doesn't give a crap about fraud.
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>>1397604 >claiming the termination would save taxpayers over $215 million annually >claiming >all citations are twitter posts >TRUMP GOOD FOR GOLD? >NOW'S YOUR CHANCE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF TRUMP'S POSSIBLE EFFECT ON GOLD! Is this like where they claimed they saved $8 billion dollars by slashing a $8 million dollar contract?
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>>1397611 >>1397601 >>1397424 its listed not his fault you're a hypocrite who loves to pretend to care about transparency when its someone you don't like but ok with scamming the american people otherwise.
pathetic cunt lol
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>>1397627 you should learn english before you post again
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>>1397627 Can you cite a source other than twitter please?
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>>1397634 doge.gov >>1397632 you should learn critical thinking skills because acting like a hypocrite is stupid dumbdumb haha.
what a stupid retard, illiterate can't even read let alone think. when elon eats you into prison world more peaceful and you dead
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So how long is it gonna be before Trump throws Musk under the CyberTruck and blames him for anything that might be seen as going wrong in his administration?
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>>1397627 >>1397637 Yeah so still no receipts for that massive chunk of their "savings".
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>>1397342 Both Republicans and Democrats are in a bad position in the bext election. Trump is too fucking old and starting to resemble Biden when he speaks, and the Democrats cant get a candidate that isnt obsessed with identity politics and starting more foreign wars.
Maybe within the next few election cycles we will see a legitimately large third party form?
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>>1397643 not my fault illiterate little lefty is burying his head in denial.
>>1397655 trump is more coherent then Biden ever was until after the election was over. Democrats at this rate are going to be literally have half their voters imprisoned for domestic terrorism before the 4 years are up.
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>>1397658 >trump is more coherent then Biden ever was until after the election was over. Democrats at this rate are going to be literally have half their voters imprisoned for domestic terrorism before the 4 years are up. Honestly all they need to do is
1) find a populist candidate with a platform, any platform, literally any issue, besides just "I don't like those maga folk"
2) convince the DNC not to rig their primaries against said candidate
Done deal. They have a president elected by 2028.
Anonymous
>>1397736 they could just run bernie sanders, as long as he detached himself from AOC she's too much bad publicity.
I think if bernie ran against trump in 2016 he'd of won imo
Anonymous
>>1397747 Don't look up Bernie's age.
I like him a bit more than the other Democrat jackoffs, but I'm also tired of having fossils run the country.
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>>1397736 The problem is that they lie too much to form a stable platform anymore.
Look at the current messaging on deportations.
>HE'S DENYING DUE PROCESS >HE'S GONNA COME AFTER AMERICANS NEXT Literally every single person being deported is here illegally or had their immunity revoked. They're not Americans by definition.
Like, they don't need to lie to point out the obvious flaws in the Trump admin.
Talk about how DOGE is going through government programs like a toddler with pruning sheers.
Talk about how the President is openly supporting genocide and stripping away legal status from H1-B/Green card holders that criticize Israel.
Talk about how this guy is literally threatening the sovereignty of foreign countries.
It wouldn't have been hard to impeach him if they hadn't lied their way through his first term.
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>>1397754 >Literally every single person being deported is here illegally or had their immunity revoked. They're not Americans by definition. Incorrect and the Trump admin even admitted to it.
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>>1397755 Bro, stop. It's not worth arguing over something we can verify with a google search.
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>>1397756 >Although ICE was aware of his protection from removal to El Salvador, Abrego Garcia was removed to El Salvador because of an administrative error >because of an administrative error >administrative error Anonymous
>>1397757 The error was that he had immunity and they deported him. He was never a legal US citizen.
Immunity from deportation doesn't make someone a legal US citizen much in the same way that immunity from prosecution doesn't mean that someone didn't break the law.
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>>1397754 where's the lie? it's now clearer than ever that he's a russian asset
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>>1397758 If he didn't receive a day in court to see that, a US citizen wouldn't either. Without proper due process you can get vanished by ICE overnight and no one can do anything about it because you never have a chance to prove citizenship.
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>>1397761 >If he didn't receive a day in court He did receive his day in court. That's why there are court documents detailing his gang affiliation.
This is what I meant by lying. You're either totally uninformed or just making shit up and pretending those of us who have actually read into the situation are missing a beat.
Again, you don't need to fucking lie. All you need to do is let Trump fuck up and let his actions speak for themselves. But you don't, which is why nobody trusts you. Your actions are predatory and deceitful, when you could take the high ground and let things play out.
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>>1397763 >He did receive his day in court. That's why there are court documents detailing his gang affiliation. Which didn't pan out, hence his protection. He never got a day in court to have said protection rescinded retard. You need to prove someone is a gang member before you send them to a fucking prison.
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>>1397753 i mean he's only 1 year older then biden....
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>>1397764 >He never got a day in court to have said protection rescinded retard. What the fuck are you talking about.
Immigration hearings aren't criminal proceedings. It's decided by the Executive Branch; the people who enforce the law. That's why he went in front of an immigration judge instead of a judge and jury.
Immunity, green cards, visas etc aren't a constitutional fucking right.
Jesus christ you leftists are insane.
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>>1397773 Why did they deport him even though he had (And STILL DOES by the way) protection from deportation? To the exact country they sent him to no less?
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>>1397775 >Why did they deport him even though he had Do you think immunity can't be revoked at any point in time?
>And STILL DOES by the way No, he doesn't. He's out of the jurisdiction of the United States.
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>>1397777 >Do you think immunity can't be revoked at any point in time? Except it wasn't revoked. He still has it.
>No, he doesn't. He's out of the jurisdiction of the United States. He still has a legal order not to deport him. It was ignored. The fact it was ignored and they now cannot get him back does not mean it does not still exist. You can't claim protections end when you illegally violate them.
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>>1397778 >Except it wasn't revoked. He still has it. You're going to have a hard time justifying why US law applies to El Salvador.
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>>1397847 The issue is him being there at all. I believe them when they say they can't get him back because of the 0 human rights allowed to prisoners there (nevermind he was already fleeing from that government). I think his family should receive millions for this.
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>>1397627 Alright I'll level with you
Let's assume what Musk has listed is correct down to the exact dollar amount
Where's the proof of fraud?
You can't just say "I saved 400bil in fraud and waste" and not explain exactly where the fraud is and why it's fraud.
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>>1397864 learn to read you sealioning retard its called department of efficiency for a reason too fyi
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>>1397658 >trump is more coherent then Biden ever was until after the election was over He doesnt stutter or lose track of what he was saying but he goes off on random tangents way more nowadays than he did in 2016. Trump is fucking old. He should be drinking a warmed Ensure and going to bed by 830pm, not be the president
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>>1397369 >believes >whatever you say, >>1397369 You cannot say 'Believes' without the word Lie. That's why I only accept facts. What
>>1397327 >>1397366 says is fact. I accept what >>1397327 >>1397366 says because it's impossible to refute facts. Everything Trumptards say is lies, due to the fact that their orange god is a liar. That's an irrefutable fact. Why should I listen to what rightards say? They never had the right to be listened to in the first place. Fact: All rightards are liars. No Exceptions. Anonymous
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>>1397322 The Exterminator is going to come to take out the Muskrat problem.
