Musk announced his departure a day after an interview clip showed him saying Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill “undermines” DOGE.

Jimmy Kimmel was “happy to share some good news from Washington for a change” during his monologue on Thursday’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” — Elon Musk stepping away from his role in the Trump administration.

Some members of the DOGE operation are expected to continue their government-cutting roles inside agencies, while others who signed on to be DOGE’s “small-government revolutionaries ” are expected to leave their temporary gigs and head back to the corporate world.

The Tesla mogul's inability to find a fraction of the fraud he originally promised made his thank-you to Trump a ripe target for internet snark.

Tesla CEO Musk announced on Wednesday evening that he was ending his time as a special government employee but vowed that DOGE would continue without him. DOGE has overseen job cuts at nearly every federal agency as part of U.S. President Donald Trump’s attempts to shake up the federal bureaucracy.

Musk’s comment in an interview with CBS News exposed a growing rift in MAGA, and now other conservatives are piling on. Some have attacked the bill focused on Trump’s domestic agenda as it heads to the Senate, while others have questioned why the GOP-controlled Congress hasn’t done more work on its own to cut spending.

Elon Musk has announced that his time as the leader of President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is reaching its end. “As my scheduled time as a special government employee comes to an end,

One right-wing activist, Laura Loomer, is accusing Republicans of trying to “undermine” President Donald Trump’s agenda by not codifying the DOGE cuts into law. She said on Thursday that the GOP pushed Musk away despite him spending millions to help get Trump and Republicans elected.