Welcome to the NewsHour. Elon Musk's time in the White House has officially come to an end after attempting to reshape the federal government.

The world's richest man was tapped to lead a campaign to rein in government spending. But as White House correspondent, Laura Barone Lopez reports, Musk's impact remains unclear and some agency budgets actually grew.

After a tumultuous tenure in the White House, an Oval Office send-off for Elon Musk. We'll remember you as we announce billions of dollars

of extra waste, fraud, and abuse. Thank you. Musk has been leading the so-called Department of

Government Efficiency, or Doe, but he's hit the time limit as a special government employee.

Still, he's expected to advise Trump from afar.

We are relentlessly pursuing a trillion dollars in waste and forward reductions,

which will benefit the American taxpayer.

His goal was to slash the federal bureaucracy, reducing what he called misuse and fraud.

Months later, he's provided no evidence to back up his fraud claims,

but thousands of federal employees were laid off and entire agencies shuttered.

He campaigned on saving the country at least $2 trillion, but has adjusted that significantly

down, saying only $160 billion could be saved this fiscal year.

The numbers that have been posted publicly are filled with exaggerated savings and unverifiable

data.

I have to say that the numbers that we're talking about are substantial, but they're going to be very much more substantial with time because many of the things that we're working on right now, we're going to have to remember Elon as we find them, but the numbers could double and triple.

Over the course of his time in Washington, Musk butted heads publicly and privately with members of Trump's cabinet.

Earlier this week,

Musk for the first time making more direct comments against a Trump priority, telling CBS he

isn't a fan of the president's big domestic policy bill.

I was like disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decrease it, and

reminds the work that the Doge team is doing.

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