The days of Ilon Musk as a White House Senior Advisor can be measured – Together with the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), which has missed large cuts to the federal government.

President Donald Trump implied on Monday that his close ally may need to return to the management of his companies and that the Doge episode of
It will be completed after the dismissal of tens of thousands of government officials.

“I think it’s amazing, but I also think it has a big company to run and so it will be back at some point,” Trump said about Tesla’s chief executive. “That’s what he wants. I would keep him as much as I could keep him » He claimed.

The president’s comments were made amid the growing concern of US public opinion on the chaos and turmoil caused by Doge – and while the formerly “flying” in Tesla sales seems to be heading towards forced landing.

Musk is described as a temporary state official, with a 130 -day ceiling on his services to the White House. According to this definition, his term would be completed in late May. However, a White House official told Politico in February that there is no completion of his work next to Trump and that he was “here to stay”.

Ever since he entered the government, Musk – according to his own description – used a “chainsaw” for cuts in the federal workforce, with the elimination of bodies such as the United States Service for International Development (USAID) and the United States Peace Institute. However, the effort is not popular, As more than half of the voters in a recent Quinnipiac poll say the billionaire and Doge hurt the country.

Trump insisted on reporters in the White House that Doge’s influence would remain because members of the cabinet and the head of the services “have received great training” from experience. “There will be a point where ministers will be able to do this job.”

In the meantime, Tesla receives great turmoil. Sales of electric cars are falling sharply all over the world, as the rage fueled by Musk makes vehicles increasingly unequivocal to consumers who once fell for the sake of the brand. The company’s share price fell 36% in the first quarter.

Musk seemed to set the bases himself for his departure at 130 days In an interview with Fox News last week, saying “I think we will have completed most of the project needed to reduce the deficit by one trillion dollars within this time frame.”