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Washington (Reuters) -Imas of President Donald Trump’s cabinet It will probably move to limit the influence of employees of the Government Efficiency Department and reaffirm control over budgets and personnel once Elon Musk steps back Doge said two government sources with direct knowledge of the matter.

The Government’s efficiency department, created by executive order on the day Trump assumed the position and led the billionaire Muskhas headed efforts to reduce federal workforce and reduce the deficit through massive shots, cancellations of contracts and services reduced to Americans throughout the federal government.

But Musk The plans confirmed on Tuesday to reduce their government’s time commitment with one or two days a week to focus on their tesla mistreatment company, asking questions about the future of the agency’s work. As a special government employee, his mandate appeared due to expiring at the end of May.

The billionaire has provided the White House for political coverage, while Dege followed a cost reduction campaign that has made it deeply unpopular among career employees. Cabinet The secretaries see Dege employees as an invasion of their traditional authority to hire and shoot, and some have been reluctant to make their offer.

In recent weeks, tensions had intensified within the Trump administration on the authority granted to Musk. During a march cabinet Meeting, Secretary of State Marco Rubio faced Muskaccusing him of undermining Usaid and the Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy faced Musk On the proposed layoffs of air traffic controllers in the midst of aviation security concerns, sources familiar with the situation said.

Cabinet The secretaries have constantly pressed for greater control over budgetary decisions, and without MuskThe presence of high profile as a counterweight, their efforts to implement specific expenses cuts, instead of radical reductions, they are likely to advance with fewer obstacles, said the sources, who speak under the condition of anonymity to discuss things that are not authorized to speak.

The most significant change will be the greatest authority of the cabinet itself. Agency bosses will now have the last word on which proposals advance, solidifying their role in the center of the Federal Efficiency and Expenditure Strategy.

He cabinet will have more autonomy and will no longer need MuskThe firm in each decision, said one of the sources.

The changing leadership dynamics within Doge will also lead to a reevaluation of the roles and responsibilities of young engineers initially hired by Musk To staff Doge.

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The influence of engineers may decrease, said the source, added that they will have greater scrutiny. The source said that the qualifications and authority of the Youth Engineers with little government experience will be questioned.

White House spokesman Harrison Fields pushed back About the idea that Musk passed back Of his role indicates a change in the direction or influence of Doge.

“The way Doge has been designed is that Cabinet Alabamaready It has that autonomy about expenses. Doge has just been an element of the agency, “Fields said.” There will be no changes. Doge is running effortlessly. In a way, it is almost in the cruise control, and it is working well within the federal government to execute the president’s agenda, “Fields said.

Many duxes observers, from academics to defenders for and against the work of their agency, see the budget cut efforts that continue despite MuskThe change of part -time work, citing executive orders that have put the moving wheels and Trump Cabinet Officials on board with your agenda.

“Many of these agencies have internalized a lot of what Doge has been internalized, and will continue advancing,” said Nick Bednar, an associate professor of law at the Law Faculty of the University of Minnesota who has been tracking the government layoffs, and that considers that government agencies are unlikely to reverse the cuts that Doge has done.

“There is a train that leaves the station, it is difficult to stop,” said Bednar.

‘Mostly done’

Muska top backER of Trump in the 2024 elections and the CEO of Tesla, Spacex and Executive President of X, is the ideological driving force behind the government’s review. He has installed the main lieutenants in key government agencies, while sending former X and Spacex employees through a strip of federal agencies to supervise the deep cuts of the staff.

He has had his digital footprints in a large number of White House initiatives, from a federal hiring freezing, to several rounds of purchase offers from the entire government, as well as a directive for agencies to create restructuring plans to reduce their staff. Their demand for federal workers to explain what they have achieved in the weekly emails that require a lot of time were initially applied by the majority cabinet Secretaries, but now they have stopped mainly.

“The great work slug necessary to put in place the Doge team and work in the government so that the financial house is carried out mostly,” is mainly done. “ Musk He said Tuesday.

With Musk Returning to your business, Dege will need to find another leader. One possibility is Amy Gleason, who in February the White House appointed as an interim administrator. She said in a judicial presentation on March 19 that Musk It doesn’t work in Doge. Trump himself has contradicted that by saying numerous occasions that Musk is in charge.

However, it has never been clear what your role -to -day role is, and that will be even more important to clarify in the period prior to your departure.

Tom Schatz, a proponent of Doge’s mission and president of the Watchdog Citizens Against Governor Gaste Waste group, said his departure could make Doge more effective.

Musk “It’s a lightning rod” that “attracts attention to whatever he does,” he said. With Musk Taking a small role, “it will be … perhaps more effective because it was called less attention.”

(Nandita Bose report, Alexandra Alper, Tim Reid in Washington; Chris Sanders edition, Ross Colvin)