Elon Musk ends his role in President Donald Trump's DOGE, but his political influence and controversial government cuts continue to impact national politics and upcoming elections.

President Trump said that Elon Musk "will, always, be with us, helping all the way." Musk's tenure as a "special government employee" is formally ending.

Elon Musk sat down for a taped interview with CBS Sunday Morning host David Pogue, a wide-ranging discussion of Trump-related topics, including the president's "big, beautiful" spending bill and Musk's apparently slowed-down Department of Government Efficiency.

“DOGE’s over-promising and underperforming results damaged not only Musk’s reputation but also the standing of the Trump administration as a whole, and beyond that, probably the reputations and chances for success of future governmental reform cost-cutting measures,” presidential historian David Pietrusza told the Washington Examiner.

Elon Musk said he expected to "remain a friend and an advisor" to President Donald Trump as his time as a special government employee ends.

New York Times columnist David Brooks implied that Tesla CEO Elon Musk may belong on a list of history's greatest murderers after DOGE cuts allegedly led to hundreds of thousands of deaths.

Elon Musk offered his opinion on the Trump administration in an interview shortly after he departed from the White House, despite initially saying he only wanted to talk about

The Tesla DEO allegedly "shoved" Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent during a heated exchange, according to Steve Bannon.