What's next for DOGE after Elon Musk's departure? 'Only just begun'

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk bid farewell to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) successful a Wednesday nighttime X post, ending his tenure arsenic the look of the bureau arsenic it shifts to a caller signifier successful President Donald Trump's 2nd term. 

"As my scheduled clip arsenic a Special Government Employee comes to an end, I would similar to convey President @realDonaldTrump for the accidental to trim wasteful spending," Musk said connected X. "The @DOGE ngo volition lone fortify implicit clip arsenic it becomes a mode of beingness passim the government."

Musk has been the nationalist look of DOGE since Trump signed an enforcement bid establishing the bureau connected Jan. 20. DOGE has since ripped done national authorities agencies successful a quest to place and extremity authorities overspending, corruption and fraud.

After Musk’s departure, a elder White House authoritative told Fox News Digital that DOGE volition run arsenic it has ever operated and that the bureau is "part of the DNA of this national government."

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Then-President-elect Donald Trump, left, and Elon Musk airs for a photograph during the UFC 309 lawsuit astatine Madison Square Garden connected Nov. 16, 2024, successful New York City. (Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC)

The authoritative added that DOGE present operates successful "nearly each national authorities bureau department" with the "sole job" of cutting waste, fraud and maltreatment with the extremity of efficiency.

"The DOGE employees astatine their respective bureau oregon section volition beryllium reporting to and executing the docket of the president done the enactment of each bureau oregon section head," the authoritative said. 

In a post connected X, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller said, "The enactment DOGE has done to destruct authorities discarded and corruption — the rot embedded heavy wrong Washington — is among the astir invaluable services ever rendered to government. And the enactment has lone conscionable begun."

While Musk has been the nationalist look of DOGE for months, helium was not an worker of the United States DOGE Service and did not study to the acting DOGE administrator, Amy Gleason, according to a court filing successful March that shed further airy connected the interior workings of the office.

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Elon Musk looks connected arsenic President Donald Trump meets South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Gleason, who has been described by her peers arsenic a "world-class talent," antecedently worked for the United States Digital Service, which was founded successful 2014 by erstwhile President Barack Obama arsenic a exertion bureau wrong the Executive Office of the President.

DOGE is simply a impermanent cross-departmental enactment that was established to slim down and streamline the national government. The radical itself volition beryllium dissolved connected July 4, 2026, according to Trump's enforcement order.

Musk’s tenure with DOGE resulted successful an estimated $175 cardinal successful savings done a operation of plus sales, declaration cancellations, fraud outgo deletion and different cost-cutting measures, according to the agency’s website, which was past updated connected May 26.

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President Donald Trump departs the White House connected May 22, 2025, successful Washington. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

The savings magnitude to $1,086.96 per taxpayer, according to the website. 

Amid Musk's enactment with DOGE, Democrats and activists person staged protests against the tech billionaire and his companies, including moving to vessel Tesla stocks. 

Fox News Digital’s Emma Colton and Elizabeth Pritchard contributed to this report.