Once hailed as President Trump’s right-hand man, Elon Musk is now facing a serious fall from grace in Washington.

The tech billionaire has been riding high since his appointment as the president’s special adviser, but his time in the White House is rapidly drawing to a close.

Musk is currently overseeing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the brand-new federal agency tasked with ‘making the government leaner, faster, and cheaper’.

He rolled out big plans to cut hundreds of thousands of government jobs and reduce federal spending by a whopping $2 trillion.

But his aggressive slash and burn approach to the federal work force and his frequent outbursts on X – his social media platform – have upset Trump cabinet members.

He is seen as a political liability. Foes have highlighted his dismal failure in Wisconsin where he ploughed $20m into doomed Republican candidates in the state’s Supreme Court race. It was widely viewed as a referendum on Musk.

The president himself was reportedly incensed that Musk was given clearance for a Pentagon briefing on China, as he was concerned it represented a potential conflict with the tech mogul’s business dealings.

And in another split, Musk took to X over the weekend to bash Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro over his defense of the president’s tariffs.