A Republican senator thanked Elon Musk for stopping "300-year-olds" from receiving Social Security due to his role with the Department of Government Efficiency.

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Elon Musk’s tenure as a special government employee in the White House came to an end Friday, prompting Florida Democratic U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost to say that his efforts reveal that a “corporate slash and burn mentality is not how you run a country.

Musk, who oversaw the U.S. DOGE Service, wrote on X that his scheduled time as a special government employee had come to an end.

The billionaire has made clear he is frustrated with the obstacles he encountered as he tried to upend the federal bureaucracy.