Elon Musk's days working at the White House are over.

Axar.az reports, citing NBC news, Musk, the billionaire Tesla CEO whom President Donald Trump enlisted to cut waste in the federal government, started offboarding from his role Wednesday a day after he criticized a Republican bill to fund much of Trump’s agenda.

Musk commented on his exit Wednesday on X, his social media platform. He called for the “DOGE mission” to become “a way of life throughout the government,” referring to his Department of Government Efficiency initiative.

“As my scheduled time as a Special Government Employee comes to an end, I would like to thank President DonaldTrump for the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending,” wrote Musk, the richest person in the world.

“I was disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decreases it, and undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing,” Musk said in an interview with CBS News.

Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill Act” – which passed the US House last week and now moves to the Senate – offers sprawling tax relief and spending cuts and is the centerpiece of his domestic agenda.

“A bill can be big, or it can be beautiful. But I don’t know if it can be both. My personal opinion,” Musk said in the interview, which will be aired in full on Sunday.

Trump responded to Musk's criticisms Wednesday afternoon in the Oval Office, defending the funding package. He said the legislation would deliver on several of his key priorities, but he also noted the complexities of passing such a sprawling bill through a sharply divided House.

“My reaction’s a lot of things. No. 1, we have to get a lot of votes. We can’t be cutting a — you know — we need to get a lot of support, and we have a lot of support. We had to get it through the House,” Trump said.

Note that, special government employees, a class of temporary worker that included Musk, can typically work up to 130 days in a calendar year, though the days can be split up. The White House first publicly acknowledged Musk’s role on Feb. 3, so he was most likely nearing the end of that tenure.