‘American Hero’ or ‘Falls’: Elon Musk’s Doo Sorther divides Capitol Hill

The emotions are high on both sides of the aisle in Capitol Hill, as Elon Musk goes to the exit.

Musk left the Government Efficiency Department (DOGE), which President Donald Trump appointed the technology billionaire to present -for the first 130 days of his new administration.

He has been a polarizing figure in Washington and this has spread to his announcement earlier this week returning to the private sector. Republicans applauded Musk’s work, while Democrats celebrated the end.

“Exposing reckless and wasted government expenditure is not an individual, this is a lasting review of the crazy city,” Fox News Digital Aaron Bean, the President of the Doo Caucus house, told Fox News. “That is why we work closely with the White House to ensure that the recession packages reflect Dooge’s critical findings.”

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And the White House has already begun this job, preparing a package of $ 9.4 billion from cuts of expenses expected to reach Congress on Tuesday. But Bean’s comments mean that Republicans will look for more.

It was a feeling that seemed to share the leader of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, Rs.d., who said that Musk “did a lot of what he did.”

“Many of the savings he identified are things in the hope that we will be able to incorporate in the bills that Congress approves. The work he did was really important. It has been a long time,” said Thune.

President of the Senate Doo Caucus, Joni Ernst, R-iwa, said he was “honest” to work with Musk, but said that it should not be needed for legislators to cut off government waste.

“It has been wonderful to have a partner ready in my work during the decade to make Washington Scaleal, but I was before Doge was fresh and I would not slow down,” Ernst told Fox News Digital in a statement.

Other Republicans were more made in their praise, such as representative Mike Haridopolos, R-FLA.

“I’m absolutely sad to see him go,” Haridopolos told Fox News Digital. “He has left a long time and wealth in order to bring the United States fiscal house and has done a great service to our country, contributing much more transparency than we spend money.”

And Senator Roger Marshall, R-Kan., Compared the billionaire to the first leaders of the country.

“It’s a kind of half of Benjamin Franklin and Half Thomas Jefferson. He had the inventivity of Benjamin Franklin and the vision of a Thomas Jefferson, and I only remember that all our founding parents were patriotic and left their usual tasks. They left everything to help find this country. And this is what Elon was Elon. [done]“Marshall said to Fox News Digital.

On the other side of the aisle, representative Tom Suozzi, Dn.y., said that, as much as the Republicans praised Musk, he also once dealt with the House GOP earlier this week criticizing his “big and beautiful” tax and his spending bill.

“They brought Musk to DC to fight the deficit and left DC calling how the reconciliation bill will blow the largest hole in the deficit ever, adding more than $ 3 trillion debt,” said Suozzi to Fox News Digital.

RO Khanna, D-Calif.

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“Initially, I said we should work with Musk to find a common ground where there is real waste, such as defense contractors, the overpayments of Medicare Advantage and recipe medicines. It is sad that DOGE faces the opposition in focusing on these problems and that agencies like Usaid and Nih are being dismantled,” said Khanna.

Others on the left triggered directly to the MUSC.

Democrats have maintained the CEO of Tesla as Bogeyman since he started campaigning for Trump, using him as a living example of rich people and outside the people who believed that the Republican White House benefited.

“Elon arrived in Washington, thinking that he could lead the government as one of his companies: the people who went left and the right, crushing essential services and tearing up at the base of the base,” wrote representative Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, who requested an investigation into Musk’s work.

In the meantime, the President of Caucus Progressive, Greg Casar, D-Texas, took credit for Musk, despite his fixed possession.

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“Musk’s departure is a huge victory for Democrats and people who work. This is a sign of the power that can be anti-corruption, the anti-millar movement in American politics,” he said in a statement. “Musk did not choose to leave because Elon Musk likes to follow the rules. Musk will leave because the North people -American built enough political pressure that had no choice.”

And Senator Cory Booker, DN.J. Considered a potential candidate for the presidency of 2028, he wrote to X, “Musk failed the others and served.”

“But there is irony in its failure: in his search for destroying the government, he reminded us of why he matters. Looking at hungry children, keeping aircraft safe, to check Social Security controls and doing quiet work to serve the common good,” said Booker.

When comments on this story, the spokesman for the White House, Harrison Fields, told Fox News Digital: “ DOGE is a comprehensive of the federal government’s operations and its mission, as established by the President’s executive order, will continue under the direction of the Agency and the heads of department of administration Trump. DOGE has given prominent results at an unprecedented pace and his work is far from his unprecedented pace and his work. department. ” Fox News Digital also contacted Tesla for Musk Comments.

Trump, meanwhile, praised Musk at a joint press conference on Friday.

“Elon’s Service in America has been without comparison in modern history. It already runs one of the most innovative vehicle companies in the world, if you look at its factories and compare them with some of the old factories we have, and it is a big difference. And the most successful space company, I suppose in history, you should say. The largest free voice platform on the Internet, “said Trump.

“Even so, Elon, with a will, with all success, willingly accepted the outrageous abuse and slander and lies and attacks because it loves our country.”