What's next for Elon Musk and DOGE's 'authoritarian' wrecking ball

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : " "He was a tremendous help, both in the campaign and in what he's done with DOGE," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on April 23.
54% : He pledged to put his so-called Department of Government Efficiency to work getting the "government off your back and out of your pocketbook.
47% : With an apparent mandate from Trump, who routinely sings Musk's praises, DOGE has swept through government agencies without any apparent supervision to reshape, and crush, a bureaucracy Musk despises.
44% : " Musk -- dressed in all black, topped with a black "MAGA" hat in blackletter type -- vowed to cut "at least $2 trillion" in federal spending, a figure he apparently came up with on the spot.
44% : U.S. Agency for International Development is virtually closed.
40% : " Musk -- a man with a net worth of more than $370 billion who wants to accelerate the human population of other planets -- predicted and welcomed economic "hardship" and a market crash if Trump won.
30% : Musk and Trump have characterized DOGE, operating as the U.S. DOGE Service, formerly the U.S. Digital Service, as "tech support" to end "waste, fraud and abuse.
30% : The election -- the first major test of Musk's political influence under Trump -- served as a national "referendum" of "the people versus Musk," Eisen said.
26% : The world's wealthiest man is 'significantly' stepping back from the White House, but the cost-cutting force isn't going anywhere, Alex Woodward reports Stepping on the stage at Madison Square Garden, nine days before Donald Trump was declared president a second time, Elon Musk told a crowd of screaming fans that their "money is being wasted.

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