Trump-Musk feud leaves some DOGE staffers worried about their futures: Sources

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Source: ABC News

June 6, 2025, 12:37 PM


On the heels of the public war of words between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, anxiety is mounting among the remaining staff of the Musk-founded Department of Government Efficiency, with some staffers worried not only about their future in government but about potentially becoming future targets of the administration, according to sources.

Some DOGE staffers still embedded across federal agencies fear that the rift and public mudslinging between Trump and Musk could leave them vulnerable to political retribution and damage their future job prospects, multiple sources familiar with internal discussions told ABC News.

Some fear their association with DOGE could make them targets if the feud escalates and Trump moves to investigate the government-slashing initiative that Musk led until he stepped away last week, the sources said. Others worry that if Trump distances himself from DOGE, their ties to it could become a professional liability, said sources.

Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, grew close to Trump over the last year as he campaigned for Trump's reelection before helping launch DOGE to try to fulfill Trump's goal of slashing the federal government. A quasi-governmental entity, DOGE has generated controversy as it's shuttered government agencies and gained access to sensitive data.

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Ya'll gonna get thrown right under the bus while they escape any type of prosecution for the illegal crap they had you do.

[Midnight Writer]

1. The people who fired thousands without cause via e-mail are now watching their own e-mails to see if they are fired.

MAGA eats everything and everyone. Folks may feel like they are high up on the food chain, but they are still on the food chain.

Eventually MAGA will come for all of us. Even its creators.

[Ray Bruns]

2. Let me clear this up for them

They have no future.

[LaMouffette]

3. Ha! I have rarely seen universal kharma act so swiftly and efficiently! There must be a Department of Kharma Efficiency

operating somewhere out in the universe!

[no_hypocrisy]

4. How does the prospect of being fired feel, Suckahs?

[IronLionZion]

5. Prison for all of them

including the two who are fighting

[eppur_se_muova]

8. Absolutely ! "We were just following orders" didn't work at Nuremburg, and it shouldn't work here.

The fingers that typed the keyboard commands to exfiltrate info from secure gov't databases -- and that's probably ALL of them -- should be locked behind bars and never allowed anywhere near a terminal again. They were actively breaking the law and causing irreversible damage.

[travelingthrulife]

6. Good. Fire them all.

[drmeow]

7. I do not give

a flying f**k. I hope all their worst fears come true. I hope they lose their jobs and are indicted and convicted for all their criminal "just following orders."

[BlueKota]

9. Democracy Docket posted on Facebook

That Russel Vought is going to become new head of Doge, and will probably be as bad or worse than Musk. He's one of the architects of Project 25 and believes that Trump can ignore the courts. So Musk maybe going away, but looks like we are fucking stuck with Doge.

[Baitball Blogger]

10. Satisfactorily Karmic.

[SheltieLover]

11. I doubt it, but would hope they are thinking about the seniors and low-income folks they've been fucking over and how

they now feel the same way. Terrified.

[Javaman]

12. LOLOLOLOLOL!!! nt

[tanyev]

13. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Surely your weekly bullet point email will save you.