Beset by recalcitrant bureaucratic inertia and stymied in his avowed ambition to effectuate systemic fiscal rectitude, Elon Musk is relinquishing his position as a senior counsellor to President Donald Trump; his fraught tenure, characterised by contentious litigation, draconian workforce reductions, and the decimation of government agencies, ultimately witnessed the attenuation of his proposed $2 trillion austerity measures to a derisory $150 billion, engendering acute friction within the Trump administration; Musk's resignation, precipitated by his excoriation of Trump's legislative programme—specifically, a "massive spending bill" deemed to exacerbate the federal deficit—notwithstanding, the White House purports to be assiduously examining elements of Musk's erstwhile fiscal prescriptions, although the disillusioned Musk, having voiced his profound disapprobation of the federal bureaucracy, intends to curtail his future political disbursements.