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Like Musk, Davis was serving as a special government employee, a designation that allowed him to keep his job as CEO of one of the billionaire entrepreneur’s companies, the Boring Co, even as he worked on the DOGE effort. SGEs are limited to 130 days of work for the government in any year.
Musk’s No. 2 is also departing DOGE as officials hit the time limit. His departure leaves the future of the effort to scale back US government spending to lower-profile officials at the White House and federal agencies.
Steve Davis, who served as Elon Musk’s de facto second-in-command at the Department of Government Efficiency, is following the billionaire adviser out of President Donald Trump’s signature cost-cutting effort, a person familiar with the move said Thursday.
Like Musk, Davis was serving as a special government employee, a designation that allowed him to keep his job as CEO of one of the billionaire entrepreneur’s companies, the Boring Co, even as he worked on the DOGE effort. SGEs are limited to 130 days of work for the government in any year.
The Boring Co is a tunnel construction and equipment company. Davis has also worked at other Musk enterprises, including SpaceX and Twitter, which Musk rebranded as X.
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Davis’s departure leaves the future of the effort to scale back US government spending up to lower-profile officials at the White House and federal agencies. Anthony Armstrong, who helped Musk buy Twitter as a banker at Morgan Stanley, and Antonio Gracias, a Musk confidant and CEO of Valor Equity Partners, are also top Musk lieutenants at DOGE.
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