Elon Musk’s historic role showed that even a chainsaw can’t cut federal bloat
By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times - Sunday, June 1, 2025
Elon Musk’s departure from the Trump administration last week was satirized on the humor website Babylon Bee, which reported that the tech billionaire and SpaceX CEO “will now spend his time tackling the much easier job of sending human beings to Mars.”
Funny, but as Mr. Musk learned, not too far from the truth.
The head of President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency dedicated thousands of hours to reducing federal spending by ridding the government of waste, fraud and abuse.
Mr. Musk left the job having made just a fraction of the cuts he had anticipated when he wielded a chain saw in February on stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
“Elon is really not leaving. He’s going to be back and forth,” Mr. Trump said Friday in the Oval Office with Mr. Musk. “It’s his baby, and I think he’s going to be doing a lot of things.”
Mr. Trump called Mr. Musk’s 134 days as head of DOGE “without comparison in modern history,” but the result showed how the growth in federal spending is entrenched and nearly impossible to curb.
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After predicting he could reduce federal spending by $2 trillion, Mr. Musk said DOGE was closing in on $200 billion in cuts.
That was only 10% of Mr. Musk’s original goal. Various analysts who have crunched the DOGE numbers said the actual cuts may be much smaller.
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