Elon Musk isn’t stepping back from DOGE until next month, but President Donald Trump is already talking about him in the past tense. Trump heaped praise on his billionaire buddy Wednesday as he spoke to reporters at the Oval Office about Musk’s looming departure from the cost-cutting task force.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced that his job in Washington is “mostly done”. At the recent earnings call of Tesla, Elon Musk said that he plans to cut back his role in the US government. Musk said that his "time allocation to DOGE" would "drop significantly" from next month,