Musk says doesn’t want responsibility for all Trump policies

President Donald Trump billionaire leased Elon Musk Friday like the Tesla CEO wrapped up in government service after four rowdy months at the head of the so-called Government Department of Effectiveness (DOGE).

“It will be his last day, but not really, because he will always be with us, helping all the way”, Trump wrote Thursday on Truth SocialAdding: “Elon is great!”

However, Musk said on Sunday that he was a strong ally of Trump, he does not always support administration policies.

“I’m a little stuck in a constraint,” he said on Sunday morning of CBS“” “Where I am, well, I do not want to express themselves against the administration, but I also do not want to take responsibility for everything that the administration does. “”

Pest tens of thousands Federal jobs in the first months of Trump’s mandate. Musk defended his government record, but recognized in the interview with the CBS that “Doge became the whip for everything. So, if there was a cup, real or imagined, everyone would blame Doge”.

He is also dismayed by the GOP Tax and expenditure package of several dollars Congress is debate. The legislation is expected to add billions of dollars to American debt.

“I was disappointed to see the massive expenditure bill, frankly,” he said, adding that this “undermines the work that the Doge team does”.

Despite Musk’s concerns, Trump officials intend to advance his initiatives. Russell Vought, director of the management and budget office, said cnn Sunday The administration will work with the congress and otherwise use “executive tools” to move forward with the Doge cuts.

Pressed on the members of the Congress by saying that DOGE perhaps exceeded its efforts to reorganize the government, Vought said: “I have no doubt that the Congress will make accusations. Some of them come by their own childcare dogs, but these childcare dogs have been historically wrong.

Doge, which Musk once planned would reduce billions of dollars in public spending, came far from this level, according to his own numberswho have question.

Musk’s mandate in politics also has harm his public image And embittered consumer views on Tesla, whose cars and exhibition rooms have become a target for incendiaries and vandals.

– Dan Pangan Pangan of CNBC contributed to this report.