“As my scheduled time as a Special Government Employee comes to an end, I would like to thank President Donald Trump for the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending,” Musk wrote. “The DOGE mission will only strengthen over time as it becomes a way of life throughout the government.”
“I’ll have to continue doing it,” Musk told Tesla investors and analysts during an earnings call. “I think we have the remainder of the President’s term just to make sure that the waste and fraud that we stopped does not come roaring back, which it’ll do if it has the chance.”
“I think a bill can be big or it can be beautiful, I don’t know if it can be both,” Musk said during the interview.
Musk endorsed Trump in July 2024, right after an assasination attempt on Trump, and later Musk reportedly committed around $45 million a month to a new pro-Trump super PAC called America PAC.
Under Musk, DOGE claimed to have saved over $160 billion – far lower than the $1 trillion that Musk initially aimed to save in government waste. The DOGE team pushed for the departures and retirements of thousands of federal workers and cut spending on foreign food and medical aid.
