This wasn’t entirely unexpected. On Tesla’s earnings call last week, Musk told investors he would scale back his government work to “a day or two per week” moving forward, suggesting that the initial setup phase of DOGE was complete.
Although DOGE was initially pitched as a cost-cutting revolution—with Musk promising $2 trillion in savings—it ended up delivering far less. According to Musk, the actual savings landed around $160 billion, though President Trump$TRUMP mistakenly quoted $150 billion before Musk corrected him with a grin.
