Axios has learned about the launch of a campaign to remove Musk from government work

A group of 77 Democrats of the US House of Representatives is launching a coordinated campaign to remove the head of the Department of State Efficiency (DOGE), Elon Musk, from the administration of US President Donald Trump by May 30. This was announced on April 10 by the Axios portal.

"We demand an immediate public statement from your administration, which will clearly state that Musk will resign and relinquish all decision—making powers, as required by law, by May 30," the portal quotes a letter from parliamentarians to Trump.

It clarifies that this initiative is based on a legal requirement according to which special government employees — this is exactly the status Musk has as the head of DOGE — cannot hold office for more than 130 days.

"We make it clear that public pressure on Republicans will only increase until May 30," Greg Kasar, a Democrat from Texas, who was one of the initiators of the letter, told the portal.

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Trump said on March 31 that Musk might step away from politics and government in the future in order to devote all his time to business again. However, the president said he would try to keep him on the team as long as he could.

Konstantin Blokhin, a leading researcher at the Center for Security Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences, and an American political scientist, assessed Musk's prospects as a civil servant on April 2. He suggested that Musk was hesitating whether to remain on the Trump team or formally leave it, because he did not have any special profit from the civil service.