The White House said on Wednesday that tech billionaire Elon Musk will stay on to complete his mission to slash government spending and downsize the federal workforce, dismissing media reports that he will leave the role soon.

A senior White House official says President Trump told his Cabinet members that Elon Musk would be leaving his government role in the coming months. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says Politico’s reporting that Musk would be leaving in “the coming weeks” is “garbage.

President Trump announces sweeping tariffs and Elon Musk may be wrapping up his DOGE agenda sooner than expected.

Fresh off an election in Wisconsin where voters said no to Elon Musk and DOGE, NBC News has learned that President Donald Trump has told members of his Cabinet that Musk will leave in the coming months.

DOGE’s days appear to be numbered. Elon Musk recently suggested that he will be done with his work in the near future. President Donald Trump told reporters this week that “at some point, he’s going to be going back” to running his companies.

Should Elon Musk leave DOGE soon, it would be a stark reversal from March, when Trump was looking to extend Musk’s stay.

The Trump administration’s efforts to shrink the US government amounted to more than 280,000 planned layoffs of federal workers and contractors across 27 agencies over the past two months, according to data from outplacement firm Challenger,

March would have been a “fairly quiet month for layoffs” without the impacts from the Department of Government Efficiency, according to the March Challenger report.

"Job cut announcements were dominated last month by Department of Government Efficiency plans to eliminate positions in the federal government," said Andrew Challenger, senior vice president at Challenger,