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Elon Musk is leaving the federal government.

The question of what happens with him,

what happens with Doge, what happens with what at once was a pretty firm grip that he had on Donald Trump and the MAGA White House. What happens with all of these things? And Donald Trump announced

on Troth Central that he's having some kind of final event for Elon at the White House.

And then he said something about he'll never really be gone or something like that.

But he'll never be out of our hearts or something crazy like this.

So listen, here's my sense of this.

On the one hand, I believe Doge is dead.

I think that's it.

It has on paper failed to accomplish just about everything.

It claimed it was going to accomplish.

They did lay off a bunch of people.

But as we know, their claims about supposed savings were exaggerated or typos or taking credit for things that were

actually done under Biden or canceling programs that were so far in the future that you can't

really call them savings at this point in time. And of course, spending in these first few months

of Trump's presidency has been even higher than last year comparing

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