"The Tesla and SpaceX CEO, who also owns the social media platform X, still broadly defended President Donald Trump's controversial pop-up agency that Musk left in the spring before it shuttered officially last month. Yet Musk bemoaned how difficult it is to remake the federal government quickly, and he acknowledged how much his businesses suffered because of his DOGE work and its lack of popularity."
""We were a little bit successful. We were somewhat successful," he told Miller, who once worked as a DOGE spokeswoman charged with selling the agency's work to the public. When Miller pressed Musk on whether he would do it all over again, he said: "I don't think so. ... Instead of doing DOGE, I would have, basically, built ... worked on my companies." Almost wistfully, Musk added, "They wouldn't have been burning the cars" - a reference to consumer protests against Tesla."
Elon Musk said his leadership of the Department of Government Efficiency produced only limited success and that he would not repeat the effort. He broadly defended the agency while acknowledging the difficulty of remaking federal government systems quickly. Musk said his businesses suffered because of his DOGE work and its lack of popularity, noting consumer protests against Tesla. He left the agency in the spring before it officially shuttered last month. He appeared on the Katie Miller Podcast and addressed DOGE, AI, social media, conspiracy theories, fashion, and Tesla's recent shareholder-approved pay package.
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