Elon Musk, the de-facto head of DOGE within the White House, has not been part of the administration's tariff plan rollout.

Musk lashes out at architect of Trump’s tariffs in first public comments about shock policy - DOGE boss says Peter Navarro ...

Navarro purports that tariffs would reduce that “drag” by artificially increasing the cost of imports, but the premise of his policy is incorrect ... 2% of GDP on defense.