However, Musk announced Wednesday evening that he is leaving his role as a special government employee and top adviser to President Donald Trump. His job heading the Department of Government Efficiency was always supposed to be temporary. But in a recent interview with CBS, Musk was critical of the president’s “big, beautiful bill.”

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Musk claimed that DOGE had become the administration’s “whipping boy,” saying that “something bad would happen anywhere, and we would get blamed for it even if we had nothing to do with it.”