Elon Musk says he's stepping back from DOGE

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Business Insider

Apr 22, 2025, 5:44 PM ET


Elon Musk has announced he will step back from the White House DOGE office after spending three months trying to radically reshape the federal government and its workforce. "Starting next month, I will be allocating far more of my time to Tesla," he said, "now that the major work of establishing the Department of Government Efficiency" is done, Musk said in Tuesday's earnings call.

He said he'll continue to spend a day or two a week on government matters, "as long as it is useful," and the president wants him to do so. Musk's announcement comes on the heels of Tesla's disappointing quarterly earnings report Tuesday.

Under Musk's unofficial leadership, DOGE has targeted a wide swath of federal agencies, including dismantling the US Agency for International Development, attempting to gain access to sensitive data and payment systems at the Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department, and trying to shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Musk has also helped Trump gut the federal workforce through buyout offers to government employees, mass firings of probationary workers, and downsizing of agencies like the National Institutes of Health.

Despite its large-scale targeting of federal agencies and workers, DOGE has not come close to its savings goals. Musk first promised that his sweeping DOGE cuts would save taxpayers $2 trillion, but later downgraded that to $1 trillion, and further again to $150 billion, DOGE's claimed savings have been riddled with mistakes and corrections, including removing $4 billion from its "Wall of Receipts" in March, dropping its real estate savings by $150 million later that month, and lowering its savings claims by over $9 billion over two days in February.

Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-leaving-doge-tesla-earnings-2025-4

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[Scrivener7]

1. He needs to take his incel clown posse with him.

[MadameButterfly]

35. I'd like a clear accounting of what his hacker posse

will be doing if Elon isn't there. And of course we still need to find out where the data has gone. Elon could still be meddling from afar. or Putin.

[Scrivener7]

42. That's my assumption. He has all the data now. That was the point from the beginning, because

clearly the point was not reducing the cost of government. We know this because, despite the cruel and ridiculous firings, the government is costing more.

So Musk has all the data and now he doesn't need the DOGE fig leaf any more.

[Blues Heron]

2. Dont let him wriggle off the hook! Hit those Tesla takedown protests every Saturday! Keep up the pressure!

Fuck this evil Nazi skum. Make his brand WORTHLESS

[BeyondGeography]

3. He thinks he had a job description problem

That’s so cute.

I’m afraid it’s much bigger than that, Elon.

[dhol82]

4. Yeah, of course

He’s already fucked up the country beyond recognition. We won’t recover from this mess for generations. He’s done his job.

[MadameButterfly]

36. I'm still hoping lawsuits to restore fired federal workers will succeed

SCOTUS being the real problem there. Everywhere else the unlawful firings could be stopped.

The current stay by SCOTUS makes it harder for workers and agencies to recover even if we win, and it implies they'll rule against us in the end after every other court rules for us.

[ImNotGod]

5. Not enough, that fascist nazi needs to go, permanently. Our party needs to make it their #1 goal

to kick his ass out of government. Dems need to be as obstructive as the fascists, create chaos where they can, it's just not happening.

[MLWR]

6. I'd prefer that he get stripped of his citizenship and deported.

Preferably to Mars in one of his rockets, but I'd settle for anywhere but here.

[Mountain Mule]

30. I would like to see him stripped of his citizenship and vanished in the middle of the night to El Salvador

[Walleye]

52. He certainly is a much bigger terrorist than any of those guys they sent to El Salvador

[GreenWave]

15. He should pay out of pocket for all damages caused by DOGE.

[MadameButterfly]

33. Yeah, the only downside to bankrupting Tesla

is Elon won't have the money to pay us back

[travelingthrulife]

48. He will still have plenty of money. He was "awarded" several government contracts.

He should be deported and all of his assets frozen until we can calculate the damage he has done.

[bluestarone]

7. Let's hope he's stepping back far enough that,

He'sa out of the White House. PERIOD.

[mitch96]

56. I don't believe he is stepping back. He is just stepping back from his PUBLIC interaction with doge.. He will still

have his hand at screwing up our country and our democracy...
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[bluestarone]

57. Oh, i'm 100% in your corner.

He's trying to make it look like he is stepping back. My personal opinion is if he says he's stepping back, then he's NOT stepping back.

[Lovie777]

8. musk is not....................

liar.

[Grokenstein]

9. Time for all of DOGE to be stepping back from the country.

Deport li'l lord elon and his entire Department of Government Stupidity, Hubris, Idiocracy & Treason (DOGSHIT) to Mars Antarctica the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

[Basso8vb]

10. He won't step away until he's dangling from a light pole.

[stillcool]

11. again?

[Buddyzbuddy]

12. Too late, Leon. You have been exposed to the world

for the bumbling, evil racist turd that you are.

[joanbarnes]

13. It's never been useful....

[William Seger]

14. People are going to die because of the evil things Musk has done

He should be forced to "step back" immediately -- a.k.a. fired -- and someone needs to start repairing the damage, ASAP. I hate to see the bastard get away with all the illegal things he did, and I wonder why people who get hurt can't sue him personally.

[byronius]

21. That's been my focus, this evil billionaire crap.

Did he not realize it’s risky to play that part?

Really. Gosh. Poor Elon.

Nobody taught him the basics.

[MadameButterfly]

34. Interesting idea

Since he isn't actually a government official couldn't people sue him personally?

[mdbl]

16. Now that he's ruined our government

It's time to ruin something else.

[MadameButterfly]

37. He could have been rich and beloved

but for his switch from Democrats to Trump. Oh, i forgot about all the investigations into his business practices.
I guess he needed DOGE to quash all of those.

The country and the world are just collateral damage for 2 businessmen too greedy to make money honestly and who needed to wield power over the whole federal government to save themselves from prosecution.

[republianmushroom]

17. You should never of been there A-O.

[AntiFascist]

18. Good boy! n/t

[3825-87867]

19. Nuremberg 2026 is gonna be a hoot!

Hey Elon...

[byronius]

20. I'm paying for that.

Not the whole thing, just the pay-per-view for me. Want to own that event.

[xuplate]

22. Oh no-there goes the stock--look out below.

[Martin68]

23. Yeah, He has what he came for. Gigabytes of data on very American citizen.

[MadameButterfly]

38. I hope something comes of the NRLB whistleblower

which could shed light on what has really been happening and maybe bring an end to Trump. I'd like to see Elon in jail for this.

[Martin68]

49. I agree, Elon should be in jail. He's already been implicated in influencing the market for his own financial gain

by making bogus announcements about what his companies are going to do. But collecting federal data on private citizens at this scale is a serious crime.

[paulkienitz]

24. The important part is that DOGE will keep going without him. This changes nothing.

[MadameButterfly]

39. Will it?

[Linda ladeewolf]

25. Not sure it will do Tesla any good.

People are still angry at Leon. The Doge boys will be more vulnerable without him. I suspect they will be stopped.

[MadameButterfly]

40. He will not be forgiven and Tesla is toast

I hope you are right about DOGE being stopped. Surely a bunch of teenagers won't be calling the shots now?

[Demobrat]

26. Too late buddy your brand is toast.

Nobody is going to run out and buy a Tesla because you’ve decided it’s time for a little damage control.

[Javaman]

27. Because Tesla is in the shitter and the board gave him an ultimatum nt

[Chipper Chat]

28. So will Big Balls be in charge?

He can pal around with Hugeseth.

[Kablooie]

29. Time to get out of DOGE.

But it’s a little late.
The damage has already been done.

[Botany]

31. After his Doge Bros sent the log in access for DOE's Nuclear Weapons oversight to Russia via Starlink

Musk is a shit.

[MadameButterfly]

41. This should have legs

This is where my hope lies. Even Republicans don't want our nuclear secrets handed over to Putin.

[Botany]

44. It won't have legs Krasnov stole our nation's top nuclear secrets and kept them in a room with a high ..

…. speed copier. We executed the Rosenbergs for this very thing and FBI agent got 15 life terms
for the same thing but now we have Judge Cannon giving him a pass and Merrick Garland doing
nothing too. I have witnessed with my own eyes and heard with my own ears the theft of a Presidential
election in Ohio and nothing happened.

Musk will be protected by the B.T.B..

[MadameButterfly]

45. I share your discouragement and outrage and agree on all counts but

the past doesn't have to be the future. People are waking up to the stakes.
If Smith had been allowed to prosecute the documents case Trump would have been toast. The NLRB whistleblower could lead to more whistleblowers, plus investigations. If courts won't address this, or fast enough, journalists need to.

What is the B.T.B.?

[Botany]

46. Sorry should have read P.T.B. Powers that be

Botany =

[MadameButterfly]

47. Thanks. But I disagree

Musk is permanently hitched to Trump's cart now. If Trump fails, investigations of Musk's companies resume, his government contracts end, and Tesla is already toast. He doesn't have a cult or an army of Brownshirts to protect him like Trump does. Lots of MAGAs actually hate him too. SCOTUS likely won't protect him either. And everyone who aligns themselves to Trump gets thrown under the bus at some point.

[twodogsbarking]

32. He should spend some of his money on personal protection. He is not liked.

On second thought, skip the personal protection part.

[MadameButterfly]

43. Though easier to sue ELon for damages than his 14 children

and I would so enjoy seeing him in jail.

[republianmushroom]

50. Thank God and Greyhound you will be gone.

Hopefully to never rise again.

[Hope22]

51. Back from Doge..

Forward into a jail cell!

[JT45242]

53. His lackeys will still ask him what to do... he'll just play video games at Tesla instead of the white house

Apartheid Clyde will still be telling his henchmen who seem as inept as 60s Batman villain henchmen.

Seriously, this group of dropouts have more in common with the goons working for King Tut, Riddler, egg head, joker and penguin than they do to any real experts.

Kapow!

[germanparlor]

54. seriously, i am tired of these countless repeats of this useless news...

its just a business anouncement and will change nothing for the DOGE destruction. So please stop posting that over and over again.

[BumRushDaShow]

55. You are free to not click on it or trash the thread.