Elon Musk officially abandoned his role in the Trump administration on Wednesday evening, putting an end to the controversial and usually unpopular career as the main adviser to the president and the actual head of the so -called “government efficiency” (DUX). Although he promised efficiency and modernization, Musk leaves a trace of uncertainty and decreased functionality.
The moment of Marsha Musk coincides with the end of its 130 -day mandate as a “special government officer”, but is also part of the efforts of the billionaire to point out wider departure from Washington, since he faces the reaction of the public and shareholders. In a recent interview, Musk demonstrated his efforts against his technological companies, saying that he devoted too much time to politics and plans to reduce his political expenses in the future.
With his march, Musk leaves in the hands of its acolites established in the key positions of the federal government, there are many plans for fulfilling and detailed agencies. His march leaves already the chaotic impact of the Dog on the government in an even more gray limited state, with questions about what power will have a hacking group without it, and who, if anyone is, can reconstruct the programs and services that he destroyed.
Dog fragments
The initial Musk DOGE offer was to save $ 2000 million from budgetary waste eradication and fraud, as well as a revision of government software modernized by federal agencies. Doge still claimed that he reduced about $ 140,000 million, although its “wall of the receipt” is known for containing mistakes that overestimate their savings.
The new financial bill Donald Trump, although it is not part of DOGE and has a musk opposition, is also expected to add $ 2.3 billion to a deficit, canceling any savings that may have reached. His promises of the new modernized software were often limited to the AI bots, some of which were already under Biden administration.
However, the greatest impact of DOGE was its dismantling public services and humanitarian assistance. DOGE abbreviations affected the strip of agencies, such as the national organization of the oceanic and atmospheric organization, which is responsible for the weather and natural disasters, and plunged others into a crisis, such as the Department of Veterans. Numerous small agencies, such as those that were coordinated with the policy of the homeless, were closed. The dog put several offices on his knees, without a clear plan about whether the staff will be personnel who will try to update, support their services or simply close them.
One of the first examples of their abbreviations and holes created in the administration is the 18F government technological group that was associated with federal agencies for the proposal of technological solutions.
When DOGE employees joined the general services administration, which housed the 18F office, their former employees confirmed that they did not seem to understand the administration and tasks proposed in the creation of public services in all operations.
Former Director of 18F, Lindsay Young, who is currently part of a legal resource that claims that the dismissal of 18f has violated legal requirements, is worried that Doni’s reductions have a long impact on state functions. “The government is much easier to destroy things than to build them,” says Young.
Mass dismissals at the Ministry of Health and Social Services were a similar loss of institutional knowledge, which DOG did not seem to have been replaced.
Karl Tobias, a professor of law at the University of Richmond, who carefully monitored Doni’s reduction, gave an example to the tobacco unit of the agency, seriously affected by abbreviations. “The loss of so many specialized knowledge, especially in the field of healthcare, will mean that more and more Americans will get sick or die to what they could do,” he says. “You can also take many years and large expenses for the resource to restore this experience and knowledge.”
The destruction of the USAID MUSK, which was the largest supplier of humanitarian assistance in the world, is one of the most rude examples of disorder and damage caused by reduction. The United States abolished about 83% of USAID programs, threatening services around the world for humanitarian aid and prevention of diseases.
One of the Pioneer USAID programs, Pepfar, which coordinates the American response to HIV/AIDS, led to a reduction in his services around the world, and its employees were confused about what you can continue to do for people who trusted their organization. DOGE contractions on the program also threatened to deploy a new HIV medicine, which the researchers called the “miracle” for its effectiveness.
While Musk returns to Tesla and SpaceX, the agencies that he destroyed must collect parts.
DOGE employees continue in the government
While Musk returns to its technological empire, many of the former employees and young engineers without experience who hired work in the dog will continue to be part of the government. One of the greatest unknowns about the future is a dozens is whether these employees will receive, some of whom gained almost unlimited access to the most sensitive data of the government, retain the same powers that were enjoyed under the mandate of musk.
DOGE employees, such as the multimillionaire and ally of the investor Musk Antonio, settled in key agencies, such as the social security administration and the Federal Aviation Administration. They worked as a kind of parallel state working group, working with a lack of transparency, since their attempts to gain access to databases and to transfer data caused riots and technical problems. It is still unknown whether Trump and the leaders of the agency move forward with the form of the form.
At least two outstanding DOGE employees followed in the footsteps of musk. The chief lieutenant of the billionaire Steve Davis, who led Doni’s daily operations, left his post on Thursday. The press secretary of Katie Miller, the wife of the attached leader of the Trump’s cabinet, Stephen Miller, also left the White House to work full time for musk, CNN reports.
Some of the dictates Musk have already been withdrawn since Washington left earlier this month, including a very criticizing mandate, which demanded that federal employees send a list of five things that they did every week. A weekly email, which was originally introduced with the threat of dismissal in case of non -fiction, was largely ignored and considered by many as useless work. On Wednesday, the Pentagon officially announced that he would put an end to this practice.
Nevertheless, Dog does not have enough leader. According to The Wall Street Journal, the mask will be replaced by a dawn, a Christian nationalist and a key figure in the project “Law -Manifesto of 2025”. The believer has long since had broad executive powers, Viud said that he wanted federal employees to remain “in injury” and sharply reduce federal funding.
Musk praised the work of Doni and promised that he would continue without him, and this week he continues to dismiss veteran officials with whom veteran officials with whom he did not agree. Even with a small number of musk allies continue to have access to the huge amounts of confidential and confidential data, which, according to the visible, intend to use immigrants to monitor.
Nevertheless, what seems more than when in chaos is a promise of Musk to make the government more effective and better serve the public.
“You do not need so many people to solve, just cut things,” says Young, 18f. “But if you really want to build things, this requires reflection. It requires effort. ”