The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said Wednesday that Elon Musk’s decision did not take him by surprise to reduce the time he dedicates to working with the US executive.
“We expected him to do it for this time,” the president told the press in the Oval Office after being questioned about the permanence of the businessman in his government.
Musk announced Tuesday that from May it will reduce to “one or two days” the time dedicated to the controversial Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) to pay more attention to Tesla.
“At some point we will have to let it go”Trump warned, after defending Musk’s work in front of Doge ensuring that he has saved “a lot of money” to the country.
Musk’s decision was given after Tesla will report a fall of net benefits by 71 % In the first quarter of the year to be reduced to 409 million dollars.
The businessman said that although the work that Doge is doing “is very important” and that he has done “A great progress in responding to Malgasto and Fraud” In the US federal executive, most of the work to establish the department is finished.
“I think I will continue one day or two a week while the president (Donald Trump) wants him to do so and while I am useful. But from next month I will dedicate much longer to Tesla,” he explained.
Tesla has been the target of several protests In the United States, Canada, Germany and Scandinavian countries, among other places, motivated by the businessman’s interference in politics.
In that sense, the US president considered that Musk has been “very unfairly treated” for the public for their work in front of Doge, who has promoted thousands of layoffs of federal workers.
Trump has not talked to Musk about his decision, but clarified that he will do it soon.
