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Musk Recounts DOGE Tenure as Time in DC Comes to End
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5:44Now PlayingBloomberg's Jennifer Dlouhy and Max Chafkin break down Elon Musk's comments about his time in the White House as his tenure as leader of DOGE comes to a close.
He’s slept in the Lincoln Bedroom, raided a White House freezer for Haagen-Dazs ice cream and played video games from his West Wing office.
Even Elon Musk seems a little bemused about his position leading President Donald Trump’s signature government cost-cutting initiative, a role that has given the world’s richest man unique access to nearly every corner of the White House.
“How did we get here?” the billionaire Tesla Inc. chief executive officer asked Wednesday, before laughing and continuing to brief reporters on his 100-day stint atop the program known as the Department of Government Efficiency effort, or DOGE.
Musk’s self-reflection comes as he begins pulling back from his volunteer effort to slash government spending and cull the federal workforce, with plans to downshift from what was initially a seven-day-a-week role to perhaps one or two days a week on average going forward.
The transition will give Musk time to refocus on his many businesses, including Tesla, whose board recently began work on a search for a new CEO to succeed him at the electric-car maker, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Tesla Chair Robyn Denholm later denied this on X, calling the report “absolutely false.”
Despite going part time, Musk is set to maintain a presence in the White House and in the president’s inner circle. Trump has made clear there’s an extended invitation: “You’re invited to stay as long as you want,” he told Musk during a cabinet meeting Wednesday.
Yet even Musk seemed to suggest that his federal government work was about to shift dramatically, with a reply reminiscent of a farewell: “I would just like to say thank you, everyone.”
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