After four months in Washington, Musk’s “baby” has slashed just a fraction of the federal spending he once projected, and the courts have stymied many of the attempted workforce reductions. Musk has clashed, publicly and privately, with Cabinet secretaries and other top Trump advisers. And as Democrats centered the billionaire in their messaging, his favorability plummeted, and Republicans feared he had become a liability.
Musk began to fade from view.
Then, on Tuesday, CBS News aired a clip of Musk criticizing Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” saying he was “disappointed” that Trump’s landmark legislation — for which the president personally muscled GOP defectors into submission to pass the House — would undermine DOGE’s spending cuts. It marked a stunning criticism by a senior aide on a bill central to the president’s agenda. On Wednesday, Musk confirmed that his time as a “special government employee” was coming to a close. And on Friday morning, The New York Times alleged Musk had used illicit drugs at the same time he was campaigning and working with Trump.
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