Elon Musk’s government-cutting work will carry on through President Donald Trump, his Cabinet secretaries and Department of Government Efficiency appointees, the White House said Thursday.
After Musk announced Thursday that his time leading the DOGE operation as a special government employee had come to an end, White House officials are stressing that the broader DOGE mission to enact deep cuts to the federal bureaucracy isn’t ending.
“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,” White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt told reporters Thursday when asked about DOGE’s future after Musk’s departure.
Trump’s Cabinet will continue the DOGE mission in their respective agencies, Leavitt said.
