Rather than an explosive split that many predicted, Musk instead appears set to keep close ties with Trump and retain influence on US politics<\/p>\n
After months of exerting extraordinary power over the US government and becoming a mascot for Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> new administration<\/a>, the first signs that Elon Musk<\/a> may shift away from his prominent role in the White House began to appear this week.<\/p>\n Both Trump and JD Vance<\/a> have stated in interviews<\/a> over the past few days that Musk would eventually leave the administration and the \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge) that he founded, their most direct statements yet on his tenure. Politico<\/a> also reported on Wednesday that Trump had told members of his inner circle that the Tesla CEO would be departing in the coming weeks, though Musk called the article \u201cfake news\u201d. Musk is a \u201cspecial government employee\u201d, a designation that technically carries a 130-day term that, depending on how the administration chooses to log those days, could run out at the end of May. Vance made sure to say that Musk would remain a close \u201cfriend and adviser\u201d to the administration even after leaving, further muddying the waters on how to mark Musk\u2019s potential departure.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rather than an explosive split that many predicted, Musk instead appears set to keep close ties with Trump and retain influence on US politics After months of exerting extraordinary power over the US government and becoming a mascot for Donald Trump\u2019s new administration, the first signs that Elon Musk may shift away from his prominent … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}