Musk said he had "done enough" and that he will step away from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the inner-government group that has slashed federal budgets and workforces. As he prepared his goodbyes, Newsweek looked back at Musk's time in government and asked experts on whether he will have a lasting impact.

President Donald Trump faces the challenge of convincing Republican senators, global investors, voters and even Elon Musk that he won't bury the federal government in debt with his multitrillion-dolla...

First, during an interview at the Qatar Economic Forum, when pressed about his anemic results at budget-cutting, Musk told his interviewer, Bloomberg’s Mishal Husain, that she sounded like an “NPC” (a...