Elon Musk revealed the date he plans to 'ditch Trump' and leave Washington D.C after his DOGE purge of Federal departments.
Musk sat with key members of his DOGE team to discuss the work DOGE has carried out over the first few months of Trump's administration - telling Fox News Bret Baier on Thursday's Special Report that he estimates the work will be done in around 130 days. He said he envisions he "will have accomplished most of the work" within the 130-day period he is granted.
One DOGE employee, Anthony Armstrong, claimed the directive President Trump has given to DOGE was to use a "scalpel not hatchet" when making their cuts. "President Trumps has been very clear, scalpel not hatchet and thats the way its been getting done," Armstrong said. "Once those decisions are made there's a very heavy focus on being generous, being caring, being compassionate and treating everyone with dignity and respect."
Musk has appeared several times on the network since becoming involved in the Trump administration and this appearance comes as his electric car company Tesla has faced a series of attacks against its dealerships and charging stations over the last few weeks.
It comes after he world's richest man made clear his powerful position within the administration of Donald Trump on Monday when he took a seat a the cabinet meeting, despite holding no official role. Mr Musk was the subject of fawning praise, including from none other than the president himself.
"Elon, I want to thank you," Mr Trump said. "I know you've been a lot with this horrible situation that happened. Very unfair. What he is is a patriot... He's become a friend of mine." Mr Trump said following a series of attacks and demonstrations at Tesla dealerships across the globe.
The appearance also comes as Musk said a Wisconsin voter has been awarded $1 million days before the conclusion of a fiercely contested state Supreme Court election that has broken spending records and become a referendum on Musk and the first months of Trump’s administration.
The payment to a Green Bay man, which Musk announced Wednesday night on his social media platform X, is similar to a lottery that Musk’s political action committee ran last year in Wisconsin and other battleground states before the presidential election in November.
The upcoming election on Tuesday, filling a seat held by a liberal justice who is retiring, will determine whether Wisconsin’s highest court will remain under 4-3 liberal control or flip to a conservative majority. The race has become a proxy battle over the nation’s politics, with Trump and Musk getting behind Brad Schimel, the Republican-backed candidate in the officially nonpartisan contest.
