Elon Musk will remain a "friend and an adviser" to Trump after leaving government, Vance says
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Billionaire Elon Musk will continue to be a "friend and an adviser" to President Trump after he formally leaves government, Vice President JD Vance said Thursday on Fox News.
The White House says Musk isn't officially in charge of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), although he has been heavily involved and the president and Vance speak of Musk and DOGE in tandem. By law, Musk, designated a special government employee, may only formally work for the government for 130 days, or a little over four months. That time would run out in late May or early June. Vance said Musk was told that the administration needed him to cut government and make it more efficient, a task Musk was told would take about six months.
"And that's what Elon signed up for," Vance said in an interview with Fox News' Lawrence Jones. "But of course, he's going to continue to be an adviser. And by the way, the work of DOGE is not even close to done. The work of Elon is not even close to done."
