Overview

• Elon Musk officially stepped down from his role as a special government employee with the Department of Government Efficiency on May 29, 2025.
• He publicly criticized the One Big Beautiful Bill Act as a “massive spending bill” that contradicts DOGE’s mission to cut government waste and adds to the budget deficit.
• The House-approved measure now moves to the Senate and combines Trump-era tax cuts, tougher immigration enforcement and higher defense funding, with an estimated $4 trillion deficit increase over the next decade.
• Some Senate Republicans, including Ron Johnson, have echoed Musk’s concerns and are pushing for deeper spending cuts to mitigate the bill’s fiscal impact.
• DOGE asserts it has saved $175 billion in federal spending, a figure independent monitors say is overstated.