As Musk gained power in Washington, his popularity has declined, an AP-NORC poll found

WASHINGTON – Elon Musk spent years building a business giant and tech visionary, abandoning critics and skeptics to become the richest man on the planet.

But, according to an Associated Press-Nok Public Affairs Research Center poll, Musk has gradually declined as he gained power in recent months, his popularity has gradually declined.

Only 33% of our adults think Musk’s favorable view, which is President Donald Trump’s efforts to narrow down and reform the federal government, waving chains, late at night, wearing dramatic public faces. That share fell from 41% in December.

“It’s a pity that he collapsed and burned his reputation,” said Democrat Ernest Pereira, a 27-year-old Democrat who worked as a lab technician in North Carolina. “He bought his own hype.”

Polls found that about two-thirds of adults believe Musk has had too much impact on the federal government in the past few months, although the impact may have ended. The billionaire entrepreneur is expected to leave his executive position in the coming weeks.

Musk is clearly more popular than the overall effort to cut the government’s workforce, which Trump describes as swelling and corruption. About half of our adults believe that the Republican president has gone too far in reducing the size of the federal workforce, while about three out of ten people think he is the target, and 14% want him to go further.

Susan Wolf, a 75-year-old retiree in Pennsylvania, believes the federal government is too big, but Musk “makes everything messy.”

“I don’t trust him,” she said. “I don’t think he knows what he’s doing.”

Wolf, who was not registered with the party, said Musk’s private sector success did not translate into Washington.

“He thinks you run the government like you run a company. And you won’t do that,” she said. “One is for the benefit of the people and the other is for the benefit of the company.”

Most tailors are done through so-called government efficiency ministries or thresholds, which was Musk’s creativity during last year’s campaign. Thousands of federal employees have been fired or resigned, contracts have been canceled, and the entire agency has stalled.

Musk has successfully provided a range of shock therapy to the federal government, but he has not reached other goals. His target was reduced by $150 billion after talking about cutting spending by $1 trillion. Even reaching this amount can be challenging, and Doge often exaggerates its progress.

He is expected to start spending more of his electric car maker Tesla, whose electric car maker suffered a plunge in revenue while he worked for Trump. Musk told investors on a recent conference call that “the main work of the government’s efficiency ministry has been completed now” and he expects “to spend one or two days a week on government affairs.”

Musk continues to move towards rights in his government work. Despite ideological classification, South African-born entrepreneurs have never been easy, but he advocated the fight against climate change and often supported Democratic candidates.

Now, he criticizes the “awakened heart virus” and warns Western civilization to collapse due to the threat of illegal immigration and over-government spending.

Musk’s increasingly conservative politics are reflected in the polls. There are only two out of one-tenth of independents, while one-tenth of Democrats view Musk favorably, while only seven out of one-tenth of Republicans.

Furthermore, while about 7 out of 10 independents, one in 10 Democrats think Musk’s influence is too great, and only one in 10 Republicans feel that this is the case.

Mark Collins, 67, of Michigan’s warehouse manager, has tilted Republicans in recent years, saying Musk “runs a nice boat” at his company, “and the government absolutely needs to step up.”

“He’s cleaning up all the trash,” he said. “I love what he’s doing.”

Republicans are much less likely than Democrats to be affected by the recent cuts in federal agencies, services or grants. Only 11% say they are “extremely” or “very” worried that they or people they know will be affected, while about two-thirds of Democrats and 44% of independents have those fears.

A -NORC poll was conducted on April 17-21 on 1,260 adults, which was sampled using NORC probability-based Amerispeak panels, a group designed to represent the U.S. population. The margin for sampling error in adults is plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.

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