Trump suggests Elon Musk’s DOGE could be shut down long before its expected closing date

Elon Musk (L) holds a chainsaw alongside Argentine President Javier Milei during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on February 20, 2025. (Credit: Saul Loeb—AFP via Getty Images)

• The Department of Government Efficiency may end after only 130 days, well before its original schedule, as Musk's work at DOGE has become increasingly unpopular among some of the president's constituents. “There will be a point at which the secretaries will be able to do this work and do it, as we say, with a scalpel," Trump told reporters on Monday.

President Donald Trump may already be looking to pull the plug on Elon Musk’s controversial DOGE project just two months into his administration.