The Trump administration and his cabinet would fill the void after Elon Musk stepped down as a special government employee from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a briefing. 

‘Trump administration will continue the cost-cutting initiative’

Leavitt said that the Trump administration will continue the cost-cutting initiative and cabinet secretaries and DOGE appointees will serve in the department. 

Leavitt said, “The DOGE leaders are each and every member of the President’s cabinet — and the president himself — who is wholeheartedly committed to cutting waste, fraud and abuse from our government.”

Musk thanked US President

On May 29, Tesla CEO Elon Musk stepped down as a ‘Special Government Employee’ amid widespread protests. Musk thanked US President Donald Trump for giving him an opportunity to reduce the wasteful spending by the government.

In a post on X, he said, “As my scheduled time as a Special Government Employee comes to an end, I would like to thank President Donald Trump for the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending. The DOGE mission will only strengthen over time as it becomes a way of life throughout the government.”

Musk: ‘Back to spending 24/7 at work’

Earlier on Wednesday, Musk said he is back to “spending 24/7 at work” and sleeping in conference rooms — as he hopped back into corporate life after his time in Washington, CNN reported.

Musk’s favourable attitude “extremely hardcore” work cultures is now coming in handy as the billionaire now has to juggle multiple flailing companies together.

Tesla sales are falling. The Cybertruck is shaping up to be a flop for the ages. The social media site X needs “major operational improvements,” according to Musk, after a widespread outage over the weekend, which came less than two weeks after xAI’s Grok started spinning conspiracy theories about “White genocide.” And, late Tuesday, the latest multibillion-dollar SpaceX launch resulted in its Starship rocket spinning out of control and breaking up over the Indian Ocean, as per CNN.