Shortly after President Donald Trump announced a new massive AI infrastructure investment from the White House, “First Buddy” Elon Musk tried to tear it down. “They don’t actually have the money,” Musk wrote on his social media platform X.

Elon Musk has poured cold water over a multi-billionaire dollar AI project announced by Donald Trump on Monday.

It begins,” Elon Musk wrote Monday night, shortly after Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 47th US President. The billionaire’s post on his social network X referred specifically to a Trump executive order ending federal diversity,

DOGE builds on the United States Digital Service, now rebranded as the U.S. DOGE Service. According to Trump's executive order, the newly rebranded department will cut red tape and streamline government IT systems. Per the EO, DOGE has roughly 18 months (July 4, 2026) to achieve the administration's goal.

A deep philosophical rift between the two billionaire leaders of the “Department of Government Efficiency” left Musk alone at its top, which could give him more power than envisioned