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White House budget chief Russell Vought sought to minimize the public perception he is closely involved with the Department of Government Efficiency on Thursday, insisting he didn’t replace Elon Musk as de facto head of the agency.
The tug of war over DOGE carries risks for Musk, who has a large book of government contracts and is managing the plummeting fortunes of Tesla, his EV company. Trump told reporters last week that “We might have to put DOGE on Elon. You know what DOGE is? DOGE is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon.”
Senate Republicans will tweak President Donald Trump’s $9.4 billion rescission request — the White House’s attempt to give a figleaf of legitimacy to the Department of Government Efficiency’s rampage through the federal government — in order to get key Senate GOP holdouts onboard.
OMB chief Russell Vought expressed excitement that Congress appeared to be on the verge of codifying into law roughly $9 billion in cuts.
More than 2,000 pages of court documents present a new window into the government’s process for terminating research grants to Harvard — and show that the Department of Government Efficiency helped facilitate the operation.
Though Trump and Musk are on the outs, workers with longstanding ties to the Tesla billionaire remain embedded in the government.
Fishback said he never applied to work at DOGE. Fishback advised Vivek Ramaswamy on DOGE while Ramaswamy was still involved, and conceived of the “DOGE dividend check” plan, which President Donald Trump and Musk both embraced.