Savings targets clearly failed
135 billion dollars: Musks layoffs cost the state a lot of money
04/25/2025 – 8:51 a.m.Reading time: 3 min.
For Donald Trump, Elon Musk was supposed to purify the US administration through layoffs. Now he returns to his crisis carmaker Tesla. The state costs its mission billions.
Tesla’s numbers are devastating. As if Donald Trump’s special advisor Elon Musk wants to take care of his electric car company again. “We have to let him go at a certain point so that he can take care of it,” said the US President. In the future, Musk can only spend one to two days for “Doge”, the Department of Government Efficiency – the state agency for more efficient government work. The team located in the White House is supposed to drastically slim down the state, including through massive job cuts.
However, the interim assessment is devastating: the wave of discharge costs the state around $ 135 billion through severance payments, court costs, re -settings and loss of productivity, and show research by the newspaper “New York Times”. Despite the high costs, Musk misses his savings goal: Instead of using the savings of up to two trillion dollars through Musk, originally announced in the election campaign, the staff cuts bring in only $ 150 billion.
The newspaper quoted Max Stier, head of Partnership for Public Service, a non -profit organization for administrative modernization. His conclusion: “Musk not only exaggerates the amounts he saved, it does not take into account the exponentially greater waste that he causes.”
Bull provides the examples right away. According to calculations by his organization and additional research by the “New York Times”, Musk’s balance is moderate:
Last year Musk became a close ally of Trump, whom he donated more than $ 250 million for his election campaign for the White House. As President, Trump commissioned him to reduce government expenditure.
According to information from the “New York Times”, the cuts concern around a tenth of the 2.4 million civilian federal employees in the United States. Trump had promised radical cuts in government spending in the election campaign. Among other things through mass layoffs from the civil service. “Remember to save a country,” said Trump. The slim state is part of the mission statement of the new right in the United States.
