‘Get Your Own Lawyer’: DOGE Staffers Recall Turmoil After Trump-Musk Blowup

Kathryn Wilkens Nov 21st, 2025, 3:48 pm

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A Friday report from Politico detailed the chaos inside the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in early June, when SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s dramatic public split with President Donald Trump sent the agency he’d built into freefall, with one senior figure warning, “Get your own lawyer… Elon’s great, but you need to watch your own back.”

According to Politico’s Sophia Cai and Daniel Lippman , 12 DOGE staffers who had been “sleeping since February” on the sixth floor of the General Services Administration headquarters packed up their belongings on June 5, the day Musk wrote on X that “@realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files.”

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