President Trump may be the second most controversial figure in his own administration.
Three weeks after Trump's second season, Elon Musk is on the centre stage. He is a maga conservative hero and he is the villain for liberals and Trump critics.
The gap was evident in the first hearing on Wednesday regarding the House of Representatives, which delivered the Government's Efficiency Subcommittee in Capitol Hill. The panel's name is a clear nod to the semi-official government efficiency (DOGE) of masks.
Republicans, like subcommittee chair Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), made Musk's efforts to scrutinize how Americans “hardly earned taxes are spent.” He praised him and promised to stand “shallowly” with him.
Democrats like Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) have pledged to “raising this illicit actor known as Elon Musk.” Others went further – especially Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif) warned that he was trying to show “D–Photos” before releasing a photo of Musk himself.
Still, events in the committee room were touched by the appearance of masks in the oval office the day before.
Meanwhile, the mask figure, standing on the right side of the sitting Trump, accompanied by his young son wearing a Maga hat, made a compelling television.
Musk's lengthy remarks were appointed on Trump's publicly declared agenda, claiming that he discovered vast federal waste and that he wanted to get the US government back on track.
In the instant, he was persuasive when Musk spoke confusedly about the strange importance of limestone mines to the process by which government officials can retire and begin receiving benefits.
But at other times, the wealthiest man in the world seemed to be a much more problematic figure for such a famous role.
Perhaps Musk's weakest moment is the most serious issue, his conflict of interest, as his company becomes centrally involved in the operation of a government that has billions of dollars in contracts. .
The main example is SpaceX from Musk's Space Exploration Company.
Musk argued that this was not the cause of concern. People from SpaceX or something. ”
Given that Musk owns 42% of SpaceX, it sounded like a concrete reasoning. Fortune estimates his holdings are worth $136 billion.
It's not just SpaceX.
Drop Site News reported that the State Department has said mask electric car company Tesla is likely to receive the largest contract for the department, with $400 million worth of “armored Tesla.”
During his appearance in the Oval Office, Musk said Doge is working on “maximum transparency” through his social media feed on its website and the platform X, which he owns.
In fact, when Musk was talking, there was no content other than the slogan on the official Doge website. Social media feeds have a wealth of claims and a relative lack of verifiable information.
The website is currently updated with forms to apply to work with DOGE and statistics on the size of the federal workforce.
Beyond its promise to list “savings” by Friday, it still doesn't contain essential information about what Doge is actually doing.
The divisions on Musk's opinions are mostly partisan, but that's not the only one.
An Economist/YouGov poll last week found that the plurality of the American public viewed him at a disadvantage. It ranges from 49% to 43%. Democrats are overwhelmingly broken against him, but he is also seen at a disadvantage by 51% of independents, compared to 34% who view him favorably.
The same poll found that 26% of Republicans hope Musk will “having a lot of influence” on the Trump administration. It fell 21 points as the same organization conducted similar polls shortly after winning Trump's election.
The lukewarm water popularity of masks is one of the reasons Democrats stay out of their way to focus many angry comments on him. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (DN.Y.) claims Musk and Doji are operating on issues similar to the shadow government.
Sometimes the businessman and his acolite appeared to play in their hands. The push for Doge volunteers to access the Treasury payment system has deepened fears about Musk and his allies being able to see sensitive financial information about millions of Americans.
The Treasury efforts are one of several cases where the court has stepped in to suspend actions linked to musk at least temporarily.
Similar rulings have been issued in connection with acquisitions offered to federal employees and attempts to disrupt the US international development agency.
Musk, who has a long history of X's intenperate statement, responded to a judge who suspended access to the Treasury Department in search of a perm.
In another post, Musk suggested that “the worst 1% of appointed judges are fired each year, as determined by the elected organizations. This is the most corrupt, Eliminate the least capable ones.”
Trump has publicly supported Musk so far.
However, during the arrival of the oval office on Tuesday, it was difficult to identify what Trump had listed all of it.
If musk's shortcomings become clearly outweigh the positive, the current intimacy will not last.
The note is a reported column for Niall Stanage.
