close
close

Elon Musk Goodbye Trump Kabinett claims that Doge saved $ 160 billion

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, reacts and bears a hat with the words “Golf of America”, while on April 30, 2025 he participates in a cabinet seat by US President Donald Trump in the White House in Washington, DC, USA.

Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters

The boss of Doge, Elon Musk Tesla CEO said goodbye to President Donald Trump's cabinet.

It was an honor to work with her incredible cabinet, “said Musk in the White House on Wednesday.” I would only like to thank everyone, it was an honor to work with them. Thank you for everything.”

“An enormous amount was reached in the first 100 days,” said Musk. “As everyone said, it is more than in any administration.

Musk said last week about a Tesla winnings that his time he started to lead the so-called Department of Government Efficiency for the management of Department of Government would decrease significantly from May and that he is planning to spend only one or two days a week for state efforts.

The New York Post reported on Tuesday that Musk had no longer worked out of the west wing. But his Dogeleutnants still worked in the Eisenhower -Executive Office Building, which is located on the campus of the White House.

A report by the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), as US President Donald Trump, will meet his cabinet in the cabinet room of the White House in Washington, DC April 30, 2025.

Jim Watson | AFP | Getty pictures

Trump said to Musk on Wednesday: “We all want to thank them for their help. They really sacrificed a lot. They were treated very unfairly.”

Musk then joked: “Well, they like to burn my cars, which is not great” and refers to a flood of vandalism, which has been aimed at Tesla vehicles and ornaments since its Doge program.

“But the vast majority of people in this country respects and appreciates them, and this whole room can say that they were very highly helped,” said Trump.

“And you know you are invited to stay as long as you want.”

Trump's cabinet secretaries and other people in the room clapped this comment.

Read more CNBC policy reporting

When Trump said that Doge “saved” $ 150 billion with his initiatives to lower the expenditure and reduce the federal employees, Musk interfered, “160 billion US dollars, but who counts?”

Musk said last autumn last autumn that Doge would reduce “at least 2 trillion dollars” from the federal budget.

But during an interview in January, Musk played this estimate.

“I think we'll try it for $ 2 trillion. I think that's the best result,” said Musk. “But I think that you somehow have to have survived. I think if we try to try $ 2 trillion, we have a good shot when we received 1,” he said, which means $ 1 billion.

However, experts say that the number could be far smaller than the Musk number quoted in the amount of $ 160 billion.

The non-profit partnership for the public service has estimated that Doge-related “shots, re-dogs, lost productivity and paid for thousands of employees cost over $ 135 billion in this financial year,” reported the New York Times.

Musk said in his Tesla winning call last week that he would continue to work on Doge, “as long as the president wants me to do so and as long as it is useful”.

“But from next month I will be Tesla, since the main work on the establishment of the ministry for the efficiency of the government, far more time for the establishment of the Ministry of Government Turne, is granted,” said Musk.

Leave a Comment