"At a certain point, I think it will end, but they have also gotten a big education," Trump said of his secretaries. "There'll be a point at which the secretaries will be able to do this work and do it very, you know, as we say, with the scalpel, and that's what we want."

Though his time with DOGE could soon end, it remains unclear how Elon Musk's influence in the White House will change.