Elon Musk is exiting the White House with little to show for his cost-cutting push and a list of frustrations from his time in the Trump administration. Musk entered politics with grand ambitions of slashing federal spending and chipping away at the $36 trillion in national debt.

Musk said this week that he’s leaving his job as a senior adviser, an announcement that came after he revealed his plan to curtail political donations and he criticized the centerpiece of Trump's leg...

The future of DOGE stimulus checks, proposed to distribute savings from government cuts, is uncertain following Musk's departure.