Billionaire Elon Musk has returned to his business ventures full time after leaving the White House and his role with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency at the end of last week.

Musk has continued to break with his former boss over the budget bill being debated in Congress right now.

Writing on his social media platform today, quote, this massive outrageous pork-filled congressional

spending bill is a disgusting abomination. The White House and Republican leadership on Capitol

Hill rejected Musk's concerns. During Musk's tenure in the Trump administration, Doge was tasked

with gutting the federal workforce and publicizing its cost-cutting efforts.

Our White House correspondent Laura Barone Lopez has more from a former Doge staffer who is now

speaking out about his short-lived experience.

Sahel Lavingia spent 55 days working for Doge, specifically within the Department of Veterans Affairs

as a software engineer. Last month, he was let go after speaking to a reporter.

He says he was given no clear reason for his termination.

Since then, Sahil published a diary of his time working in the department,

chronicling what he did and didn't accomplish.

Sawhill joins me now.

Sawhill, thank you so much for being here.

You joined Doge in mid-March as a volunteer employee.

Can you start by telling us what you were brought in to do?

Honestly, at the time, I didn't know exactly what I was brought in to do.

I learned on day one what really I was going to do,

which was to help cut contracts, to help build orcharts to visualize

the organization, and hopefully to spend a lot of my time shipping code as well. And as a software

engineer, I was hoping that I could come in and effectively build software in-house and also

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