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The Trump White House released a video connected Friday marking the extremity of Elon Musk’s clip moving with the administration. The billionaire has been starring the recently formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) since January.
The video, which was posted connected aggregate societal media platforms, is simply a item reel, starting with Musk’s endorsement of President Donald Trump successful July 2024, conscionable aft the then-candidate was astir assassinated, and goes up to his past time successful D.C.
Elon Musk receives a aureate cardinal from U.S. President Donald Trump successful the Oval Office astatine the White House successful Washington, D.C., May 30, 2025. (REUTERS/Nathan Howard)
WHITE HOUSE DISCLOSES WHO WILL LEAD DOGE EFFORTS AFTER MUSK'S DEPARTURE
In summation to the video, the White House published respective posts connected X thanking Musk for his service, including a database of "DOGE Wins," which see redeeming American taxpayers $170 billion, canceling astir 523,000 progressive U.S. authorities recognition cards/accounts it uncovered successful an audit, cleaning up records astatine the Social Security Administration, among different initiatives.
During a associated quality league connected Friday, Trump awarded Musk a "key to the White House." The White House quoted the president arsenic saying that "Elon’s delivered a colossal alteration successful the aged ways of doing concern successful Washington… Elon Musk’s work to America has been without examination successful modern history."
Elon Musk holds the cardinal to the White House, a acquisition received from U.S. President Donald Trump, astatine a property league successful the Oval Office astatine the White House, successful Washington, D.C., May 30, 2025. (REUTERS/Nathan Howard)
WHAT'S NEXT FOR DOGE AFTER ELON MUSK'S DEPARTURE? 'ONLY JUST BEGUN'
Another Republican person joined Trump successful recognizing the changes Musk worked to instrumentality successful Washington.
House Speaker Mike Johnson thanked Musk for his "selfless, patriotic service" and praised some the billionaire and DOGE, saying they "dug done the bureaucracy and shined a airy connected MASSIVE waste, fraud, and abuse."
"They person saved the American radical BILLIONS of dollars, and are updating aged and inefficient systems crossed the national authorities — each portion providing Republicans with a database of targets of pointless programs that Congressional enactment volition address."
MUSK OFFICIALLY STEPS DOWN FROM DOGE AFTER WRAPPING WORK STREAMLINING GOVERNMENT
U.S. President Donald Trump and Elon Musk be a property league successful the Oval Office of the White House successful Washington, D.C., May 30, 2025. (REUTERS/Nathan Howard)
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While immoderate wonderment astir the aboriginal of DOGE, the Trump medication is insisting that the section volition spell connected without Musk astatine the helm. The Tesla founder addressed this question arsenic good conscionable arsenic Trump marked 100 days successful office. He told a tiny radical of reporters that "DOGE is simply a mode of life, similar Buddhism. You wouldn’t inquire who would pb Buddhism. Is Buddha needed for Buddhism?"
A fewer days earlier the extremity of his White House tenure, Musk vowed successful a station connected X to spell "back to spending 24/7 astatine enactment and sleeping successful conference/server/factory rooms," a large power from the Lincoln Bedroom, wherever the billionaire allegedly slept aggregate times. However, Trump teased that adjacent though it was Musk's past day, it wasn't "really, due to the fact that helium will, always, beryllium with us, helping each the way."
Rachel Wolf is simply a breaking quality writer for Fox News Digital and FOX Business.
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