This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
Elon Musk, the owner of Tesla, X, and SpaceX, has been working with President Donald Trump in the administration's Department of Government Efficiency for months now, hunting down and eliminating government waste, fraud, corruption, and even criminal activity in its spending.
Not surprisingly, he's accumulated a few enemies along the way to cutting thousands of government jobs, hundreds of millions in wacky grant programs, and billions in spending.
He's taken it in stride, repeatedly going to social media to discuss the savings for American taxpayers, along with the atrocities they had been getting federal money. He's tackled issues such as illegal aliens being given Social Security numbers, and the benefits – and even voting privileges – they obtain because of that.
So it was perhaps with a hopeful attitude that some publications such as Politico reported Wednesday that Musk soon was to leave DOGE.
That was confirmed in a terse statement from the White House that the "scoop" actually "is garbage."
The reports had claimed that Musk would be "stepping back in the coming weeks."
Musk himself slammed the journalistic lie, saying, "Yeah, fake news."
DOGE originally was set up as a temporary structure to attack the waste and corruption in government, and Musk is expected to relinquish his White House work at that time, some months out yet.
The reports said, though, that Trump and Musk had "decided in recent days that it will soon be time for Musk to return to his businesses and take on a supporting role."
They said his exit is "looming."
The reports even suggested that Musk "is likely to retain an informal role as an adviser & continue to be an occasional face around the White House grounds."
One report claimed Trump told Cabinet members and inner circle confidantes that Musk "is stepping back."
The reports complained of his "unpredictability" and claimed he was a "liability."
