Musk Exits White House, Trump, Court Tariff Battle Escalates
- This week, Elon Musk concluded his participation in White House and federal initiatives amid heightened media scrutiny.
- His exit follows expanded federal contracts, including classified Pentagon deals and embedded servers inside multiple agencies.
- Musk’s federally funded data-harvesting operations continue to raise concerns about privacy, labor, pollution, and grid reliability in communities like Memphis.
- Musk stated in a CBS interview he was “disappointed to see the massive spending bill” that increases the deficit and hampers his DOGE project.
- Musk now returns to Tesla amid profit drops tied to his political activism, while Senate Republicans will oversee the budget bill’s fate next month.
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Elon Musk Left the White House, but Tesla’s Protesters Aren’t Finished
Elon Musk left the Trump administration with a White House send-off on Friday. That was a victory of sorts for a group of activists who have spent much of the last four months organizing protests against Mr. Musk’s right-wing politics by targeting his electric car company, Tesla. A day later, on Saturday, hundreds of people showed up at more than 50 Tesla showrooms and other company locations to continue their protests. The campaign at Tesla sit…
Elon Musk’s DOGE Falls Far Short of Stated Goal as Tenure Ends
Billionaire Elon Musk, whose tenure leading DOGE ends Friday, slashed his goal for savings from $2 trillion to $1 trillion to finally only $150 billion. He didn't even meet the most modest goal. Money is now flowing out of government coffers at an even faster pace than the previous two years. The post Elon Musk’s DOGE Falls Far Short of Stated Goal as DOGE Tenure Ends appeared first on Mississippi Free Press.
Musk: DOGE criticism unfair, became ‘whipping boy’ in DC
By Jack Phillips Contributing Writer Tech billionaire Elon Musk said he believes that the Department of Government Efficiency, which he led until last week, became a “whipping boy” in Washington and indicated that some of the criticism lodged at the task force was unfair. Last week, as Musk’s time as a special government employee in the Trump administration came to an end, he held a joint news conference with President Donald Trump in the Oval…
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