Will Washington, D.C. and the Donald Trump White House remain the same with the departure last week of entrepreneur Elon Musk from his full-time role as Cost-Cutter in Chief?

That’s our Question of the Week for our readers.

Do you think Musk did a good job creating and running DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency?

Did he and his team slash as much spending as you would like to have seen from the federal budget?

Was it proper to bring in, as he did, young Silicon Valley colleagues to do DOGE’s work in sussing out where to cut from various government departments and bureaucracies?

Do you think that Musk is really gone, or will he still dabble in his former work for the president and his administration?

Since some of the cuts of personnel and spending were later restored, does that mean he was using a sledgehammer where a scalpel was what was needed?

Or is that criticism just a remnant of the Deep State that the president has said he aims to eliminate?

Which do you think were the best spending cuts that DOGE made? And the worst?

Do you think that Musk was more or less forced out because of his clashes with others in the administration, or was this about the moment he intended to leave his full-time work in politics in the first place to return to a concentration on his various businesses?

Did you catch the Oval Office news conference Friday during which Musk took questions from the media, including about the black eye he sported — he said he was playfully punched by his son X — and declined to address his reported extensive drug use?

Do you think he got the job because of his donations of about $275 million to the president’s election campaign? Or that he really wanted to lead DOGE because of his worries about over-regulation by the government of his SpaceX and Tesla firms?

After once saying it was “easy” to cut government spending, he now says, “It’s mostly just a lot of hard work.” Will DOGE live on successfully without him?

Email your thoughts to opinion@scng.com. Please include your full name and city or community of residence. Provide a daytime phone number (it will not be published).