Musk calls Doge only somewhat successful' and says he would not do it again

"Elon Musk has said the aggressive federal job-cutting program he headed early in Donald Trump's second term, known as the department of government efficiency (Doge), was only a little bit successful and he would not lead the project again. Musk said he wouldn't want to repeat the exercise, talking on the podcast hosted by Katie Miller, a rightwing personality with a rising profile who was a Doge adviser and who is married to Stephen Miller, Donald Trump's hardline anti-immigration deputy chief of staff."

"Asked whether Doge had achieved what he'd hoped, Musk said: We were a little bit successful. We were somewhat successful. Doge created chaos and distress in the government machine in Washington DC, and by May more than 200,000 federal workers had been laid off and roughly 75,000 had accepted buyouts as a result of purges by Musk's external team of often-young zealots."

"The group said it had saved billions of dollars in public expenditure, but it was impossible for experts to authenticate these claims because of the lack of public accounting. It was estimated to have saved far less public money than Musk and Trump boasted it would. Musk eventually stepped back from Doge and later the team appeared quietly to have been wound down."

Elon Musk led the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) early in Donald Trump's second term and later declined to lead it again. Musk described Doge as only somewhat successful and said it created chaos and distress in Washington. By May, more than 200,000 federal workers had been laid off and roughly 75,000 had accepted buyouts after purges by Musk's external team. The taskforce claimed billions in savings, but lack of public accounting made verification impossible and independent estimates showed far smaller savings. Musk stepped back, the team was wound down, and he said he would have been better off running his companies.

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