Ikaras Dogi
In the Greek myth, Ikaras ignored the warning. Armed with wings of wax and ambition, he moved towards the sun – only for a decline when the heat proved more than the flight.In 2025, Elon Musk arrived in Washington as Trump’s Ikaras. His wings were not wings – they were algorithm. His torch was not divine – it was a chainsaw. And his goal was not survived, but Dominion: Federal bureaucracy, slash $ 2 trillion into the garbage, and bend Washington’s dull machinery into the tempo of Silicon Valley.But like a myth, the rules of political gravity are unchanged. And exactly four months after getting out of pomp, the Musk is exiting the capital – not as a winner, but as a case study.
A collision course with Washington
From the beginning, Musk made himself less as a policy maker and more styled as a disruptive-in-chief. While leading the newly created Government Efficiency Department (DOGE), their missions were seen as a bloated unhealthy to federal agencies.His approach was fast and aggressive. Musk and his Dogi team revolve in bureaucracy like an evil counseling firm – the use of access, reducing budget, implementing productivity mandate and declaration of war on “voksness”. For some time, it worked. The headlines increased. Maga affected people made happy.But within weeks, backlash began.
Shill match heard by President
The Trump Administration asks Supreme Court to block Watchdog Access for Dog Documents (Photo: AP)
The braking point came in March. Musk bypassed Treasury Secretary Scott Besant to establish a new IRS commissioner – an act that recently triggers one of the most dramatic halls conflicts in White House Memory.“F *** You! F *** You! F *** You!” The President shouted at the musk, loudly to hear Trump. His argument spread through the financial records of West Wing, Kasturi Needing Besant, Besant refused to return.Finally, the bessent prevails. Musk’s candidate lasted for three days. The Shakti conflict was over – and therefore, rapidly, there was the effect of Musk.
Chen saws, bullet points and bureaucracy resistance
After this it was revealed at a slow pace. Mask’s claims to save trillions were quietly revised to $ 170 billion. The courts stopped the trimming. The agencies restored the programs. Cabinet secretaries pushed back on the reforms that they said that would reduce essential services.Trump’s tone was transferred. Musk dramatically after climbing a Chensaw stage, the President removed himself: “We say scalpel,” he posted.Inside the government, civil servants ignored the Dogi instructions. “How many people were fired because they did not send their three things a week or whatever was the nonsense?” An advisor asked for rhetoric. “Everyone is ready to move beyond this part of the administration.”
Cabinet rebellion
Marco Rubio
The tipping point came to a closed door cabinet meeting. Musk, still riding high from its outer Bravo, which turned out to be a coordinated rebellion.State Secretary Marco Rubio, still stinged by the USAID faction of Dogi, pushed back. Hence VA Secretary Dug Collins and Transport Secretary Sean Dafi did it. Musk defended his speed and methods, citing the need to replace the employees fired with better fare – but by then, the opposition had cristed.Even Trump, realizing the tide, began to cool in public. And with this, the centrality of Musk in administration ended.
A political misfire in Wisconsin
Elon Musk was seen wearing a thing raised hat during his speech at the Wisconsin Town Hall. Tesla’s CEO also excavated at George Soros, President of Soros Fund Management.
Outside DC, Musk’s political instinct did not perform better. In Wisconsin, he campaigned for a conservative state Supreme Court candidate, wearing a cheese hat and turned himself into a story.Democrats punched. The Liberal candidate won by ten points. GOP stopped mentioning Kasturi. The money raised email which once named, disappeared. Even Trump’s true social account, once with praise of Kasturi, became silent.A Republican operative was a blunt: “He does terrible votes. People hate him.”
Friction on trade and foreign policy
Internal, Musk also collided with the administration on the policy. He pushed a zero-tariff business model with Trump’s economic populistism. He publicly insulted Peter Navarro. A proposed Pentagon briefing on China banned the conflict of interest, forcing Trump to end any such meeting.Even Steve Bainon took notice. “Fever broke,” he recited. Musk, once seen as a strategic partner, became a responsibility.
Doge without musk
The position of Musk as a “special government employee” always had a shelf life – 1130 working day. There was talk about expanding it. Since then, that chatter has ended.His team, however, remains embedded. East students of Dogi now work in energy and interior departments. Press Secretary Karolin Lewitt said, “The White House has continued the mission:” Dogi employees who lived in their respective agencies will continue to work with President Trump’s cabinet to make our government more efficient. ,But Musk’s personal impression disappears. Even he is ready to retreat. “I think I have done enough,” he said on Qatar Economic Forum.
Chain saw or chisel?
Some people believe that the effect of Musk was not dirty, meaningless. “He met some big Nick,” said Matt Calcins, CEO of Apian. “But we probably did not need to see the chain. We needed a chisel.”Others have more doubts. “They have not added any value,” said Aayushi Roy of Harvard Kennedy School. “They are just removing things.”Even detecting the much awaited fraud of Musk in social security became a red herring. Payments were already stopped to those flagged persons – before Dogi flagged off the discrepancy.In agencies such as FAA, where Musk’s cuts triggers operational delays, recovery is still on.
Endgeame
Musk insisted that Dogge can survive him. “Dogi is a way of life,” he told reporters. “Like Buddhism.” Asked whether he needs to work, he replied, “Is Buddha necessary for Buddhism?”But there is a way to catch the myth.Musk entered the capital like a force of nature – a billionaire disruptive that is ready to rebuild the Republic. He quietly reverse his reforms with some cost savings, a long list of some loyal and agencies.Ikaras analogy remains unmistakable – no because the musk fell, but because he thought he would not do it. In Washington, where survival depends less on vision and more dependent on consensus, their biggest miscalcity was not the budget – it was believed that Raw could be a process.And finally, the wax melted. The wings failed. And the swamp remained as usual, remained.With input from agencies
