“Would have worked on my companies”: Musk wouldn’t do DOGE again

Less than a full year into Donald Trump s second term Elon Musk already regrets the time he spent running DOGE The Tesla head and mega-billionaire served under Trump as the head of the quasi-agency tasked with slashing executive spending In practice DOGE took a hacksaw to the federal workforce and US foreign aid without bothering to check what plenty of of those employees and funds did Speaking to former DOGE spokesperson Katie Miller on her podcast Musk noted that his tenure in the Trump administration was somewhat fruitful before balking at a hypothetical opportunity to go back in time and lead the effort again I think instead of doing DOGE I would have basically built you know worked on my companies he reported Related Elon Musk s beloved DOGE has closed But its legacy is deadly Musk s time at the agency was tumultuous as the political novice hurriedly realized that insiders were not impressed by his chainsaw-wielding shtick After inflicting particular serious damage in its early days Musk lost his biggest booster after getting into a spat with the president and his project went away quietly Musk pointed to the real-world backlash against Tesla while he worked with the administration In addition to tumbling sales numbers and falling stock prices several protestors damaged auto dealerships to vent frustrations over the billionaire s involvement with Trump admin layoffs They wouldn t have been burning the cars he stated of a world where he never accepted Trump s invite into the administration Read more about this topic Elon Musk is accelerating a -year ruling body privatization project The untold saga of what happened when DOGE stormed Social Guard The swamp won Republicans lament loss of Elon Musk s DOGE The post Would have worked on my companies Musk wouldn t do DOGE again appeared first on Salon com