Elon Musk will continue to be a “friend and advisor” to the Trump administration — even after his stint at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is up, Vice President JD Vance said Thursday.
The billionaire, who is DOGE’s lodestar, is expected to step back at the end of next month given his tenure with the admin was only ever meant to be temporary.
“Of course, he’s going to continue to be an advisor,” Vance told Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” following reports in lefty media outlets that Musk was stepping down.
“Fundamentally, Elon is going to remain a friend and an advisor of both me and the president — and he’s done a lot of good things.”
“Elon came in and we said ‘we need you to make government more efficient, we need you to shrink the incredible fast bureaucracy that thwarts the will of the American people but also costs way too much money’,” the veep continued.
“We said that’s going to take about six months — and that’s what Elon signed up for.”
Per federal regulations, Musk could only remain in his post for 130 consecutive days as a special government employee.
Still, Politico and other left-wing pundits on Wednesday heralded his imminent departure as evidence of a fractured Trump-Musk alliance.
Blasting the reports as “fake news,” Vance vowed the work of DOGE would continue even after Musk left.
“The work of DOGE is not even close to done. The work of Elon is not even close to done,” he said. “DOGE has got a lot of work to do… that work is going to continue after Elon leaves.”
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