Elon Musk is formally stepping down from his role in the Trump administration after just five months, ending a tumultuous period during which he oversaw cost-cutting by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency.
In a post on Wednesday on X, Musk, who began scaling back his work at Doge last month, said: “As my scheduled time as a Special Government Employee comes to an end, I would like to thank President @realDonaldTrump for the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending.”
The world’s richest man was a “special government employee”, a category within the US civil service that restricts staff from working for more than 130 days in a year for the administration.