Updated: May 29, 2025 08:38 IST (File) Elon Musk attends a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., on March 24, 2025 | Reuters Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, who announced his decision to leave the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) on Wednesday, distanced from the Donald Trump administration after he got frustrated with the obstacles in his bid to carry out his objectives, according to a report. Musk also made no secret of his disillusionment with the domestic policy bill that Trump championed and the House passed last week and has been operating with some distance from Trump, according to the New York Times. He also vocally criticised the bill, stating that it "undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing". "I think a bill can be big or it can be beautiful but I don't know if it can be both. My personal opinion," Musk said in an interview with CBS News, shortly before leaving DOGE. He added that he "was disappointed" to see the massive spending bill which increases the budget deficit and "undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing". The bill, which still needs to clear the Senate, pushes for tax cuts, boost border security spending, impose work requirements on Medicaid and roll back clean energy tax credits. The tax provisions of the package will entail an increase in the deficit by $3.8 trillion by 2034. Soon after, he took to X to confirm that he was leaving DOGE and thanked Trump for the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending. "The @DOGE mission will only strengthen over time as it becomes a way of life throughout the government," he added. Abu Dhabi project Musk is also said to have complained to the Trump administration about being Sam Altman's OpenAI winning a lucrative deal to build an artificial intelligence data centre in the Middle East. OpenAI and some other US tech firms had won the contract to create one of the world’s largest artificial intelligence data centres in Abu Dhabi. Musk had warned the UAE leaders that Trump wouldn't sign off on the deal unless his company xAI was included in the deal, The Wall Street Journal quoted sources. The Tesla CEO learnt about the deal before Trump was to embark on a trip to the Middle East and was unhappy about Sam Altman being included in the delegation. He then decided to join the trip. Though Musk complained about it, Trump and US officials decided to move forward after reviewing the terms of the deal. Musk didn’t want a deal that seemed to benefit Altman and Trump aides had to calm Musk down, the WSJ quoted one official. Musk, however, raised concerns about the deal and "relayed his concerns about fairness for all AI companies." Former friends, Altman and Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 but parted ways in 2018 after Musk accused him of being untrustworthy. He was very critical about OpenAI and Altman and their ties with Microsoft, even stating OpenAI had become a "closed source, maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft". After ChatGPT's launch, Musk responded by launching his own rival startup, xAI but couldn't emulate the success of ChatGPT. Also read