Vice President JD Vance told Newsmax on Thursday that despite the narrative from the mainstream media, the Elon Musk era in the Trump administration is not over following the end of the billionaire tech mogul’s term as a special government employee.

President Donald Trump tasked Musk to lead the Department of Government Efficiency’s efforts to streamline the federal government by eliminating waste, fraud and abuse. Musk announced Wednesday he is leaving as DOGE’s chief.

“What he has done is really incredible,” Vance said in an exclusive interview on “Greg Kelly Reports.” “People sort of forget that when he came into the U.S. government, we had never had a full-scale effort to actually look at, are we spending the American people’s dollars wisely? And he found in a very short period of time over $170 billion of waste, fraud and abuse.

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