Elon Musk announced his “scheduled time as a special government employee” was coming to an end on his social media platform X on Wednesday.

Thousands of people were indiscriminately laid off or pushed out — hundreds of whom had to be rehired — and some federal agencies were eviscerated.

Musk's departure from the administration "is music to the ears of Tesla shareholders," said Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives, a long-time Tesla bull who had last month called the Tesla chief's tim...