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Elon Musk stepping down from DOGE in May (www.usatoday.com)

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"Musk’s team said it saved the country $115 billion by slashing wasteful and redundant spending. Not everyone agrees, but he feels he has the country on track and he can step aside."

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[–] [email protected] 144 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Lackluster reporting. The article misses the fact that he has to step down as he's a special government employee and so can only work for 130 days.

Strange that that's the one law that he decided to follow.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago

The Russian constitution omly allowed 2 consecutive terms.

Putin endorsed Medvedev, who served 1 term, then Putin resumed power afterwards.

At which point he removed the 2 term restriction.

They've already found another placeholder.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Keep in mind what he "says" he's doing and what happens in two months... Are completely separate...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

They would keep him on if they wanted to, he's insufferable to the point that the weirdo accelerationist psudeo-nazi death cult can't tolerate him.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

So he'll just be a different special employee a day after. Or whatever they need to justify his return.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yea ever since he started the doomers have been screeching "4 more years of this!!" when the 130 day limit was always there from the beginning.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Assuming he actually leaves... the damage done will be with us for decades.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

The scars from this presidency will rival the scars of the civil war in duration.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I'm sure this announcement will have them on their heels! After 60 days of destroying the administrative state, they'll just have to acknowledge it was all a good thing and no big deal since he's "stepping down" right? Right?