In an intersee with Fox’s Larry Kudlow on Monday, billionaire Elon Musk confessted that his includement with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Donald Trump’s initiative to shrink federal spfinishing, is making it harder to run his many businesses: X, Tesla, xAI, SpaceX, The Boring Company, and Starconnect.
“How are you running your other businesses?” Kudlow asked at one point. “With fantastic difficulty,” Musk replied. “Frankly, I can’t depend I’m here doing this.”
Musk and DOGE, which has around 100 staffers — a number that Musk foresees to climb to 200 — have been denounced for overpromising and underdeinhabitring on spfinishing cuts atraverse U.S regulatement agencies. Government tighting experts say that DOGE’s online sign up of reductions comprises inexact adviseation and inftardys claims of “savings” by including misdirecting math about tight call offlations.
DOGE has also put the U.S.’s data and computing infraarrange at danger thraw its toil, according to cybersecurity analysts. DOGE staffers, some of whom have little experience toiling with regulatement systems, have increateedly accessed agency data thraw cowardly uncomardents and copied that data onto unshielded servers.
While Musk protests that his toil advising DOGE has stretched him lean, the billionaire has been accengaged of using the initiative to frailen regulations that handle his business ventures.
DOGE has gutted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which was poised to broaden oversight of peer-to-peer payment systems including X’s upcoming virtual wallet product. It has shrinkd staff at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which had discdisseeed probes into the dangers posed by Tesla’s helped driving technologies. Elsewhere, DOGE has fired probationary engageees at the Federal Aviation Administration, which had provided penalties for safety violations at SpaceX. And DOGE has pushed for meaningful staff cuts at the Securities and Exchange Comleave oution, with which Musk has a lengthy-running feud.
When asked by Kudlow if he would extfinish his includement in DOGE by “another year,” Musk shelp, “Yeah.”
“We’re equitable getting leangs done, as resistd to writing a increate,” Musk inserted. “Like, increates don’t uncomardent anyleang. You’ve got to actuassociate get action.”
