Now that billionaire Elon Musk has stepped away from his White House job as a “special government employee,” DOGE staffers he brought on board are exiting too – some not because they want to leave.

According to a report from the Washington Post’s Faiz Siddiqui, Hannah Natanson, Cat Zakrzewski, Alex Horton and Elizabeth Dwoskin, the influence of DOGE is waning and Cabinet heads are hiring back employees who were dismissed during the mass purge initiated under Donald Trump’s anti-government administration.

The Post is reporting, that Musk’s influence with Trump’s people has fallen apart since he and Trump have turned on each other with the billionaire going so far as to suggest there is information about the president in the Jeffrey Epstein files.

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    It’s a wake up call to me how much power there is for the wealthy. No other type of person outside of government could have done what he did.

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      I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again:

      Imagine if this was a democrat presidency with a democrat controlled congress.

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          Haha. We wish don’t we.

          Not the point I was making though. I’m saying if dems were doing what maga is doing now, Republicans would be in the streets with their assault rifles or something, the point is they wouldn’t stand for this if it were dems, they’re hypocrites.

          But dems wouldn’t be doing anything like this, as we all know.