Trump set to hold media event with Elon Musk at the White House

President Donald Trump is acceptable to clasp a media lawsuit with Elon Musk, a cardinal designer of the Department of Government Efficiency, connected Friday day astatine the White House arsenic the tech billionaire concludes his tenure arsenic a "special authorities employee."

Trump announced the event, scheduled for 1:30 p.m. ET, connected his societal media site.

"This volition beryllium his past day, but not really, due to the fact that helium will, always, beryllium with us, helping each the way," Trump wrote connected Truth Social. "Elon is terrific!"

NBC News reported that Musk’s monthslong stint arsenic a peculiar authorities worker tasked with slashing national spending formally ended Wednesday evening. He has served the designated 130 days retired of 365 successful the twelvemonth arsenic a peculiar authorities employee.

Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, announced his departure Wednesday connected X, aft helium said helium was “disappointed” by a domestic bundle Trump rallied House Republicans to get behind.

He told “CBS Sunday Morning” in an interview acceptable to aerial Sunday, “I was, like, disappointed to spot the monolithic spending bill, frankly, which increases the fund deficit, not conscionable decreases it, and undermines the enactment that the DOGE squad is doing.”

Musk thanked Trump successful his station Wednesday, adding that DOGE’s “mission volition lone fortify implicit clip arsenic it becomes a mode of beingness passim the government.”

Musk, who successful January walked back a imaginativeness of cutting upward of $2 trillion with his department, has argued that bureaucracy has throttled his efforts to trim authorities spending.

“The national bureaucracy concern is overmuch worse than I realized,” helium told The Washington Post this week. “I thought determination were problems, but it definite is an uphill conflict trying to amended things successful D.C., to accidental the least."

House Republicans voted past week to o.k. the authorities that would widen Trump’s taxation cuts from his archetypal term, which is estimated to add $2.3 trillion to the national shortage implicit 10 years and cancel wellness sum for astir 8.6 cardinal people, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.