Overview
- Elon Musk offered a guarded review of the Department of Government Efficiency in a new podcast interview, calling its results only "somewhat successful."
- He said he would not repeat his role at the office and indicated he would have focused on his companies instead.
- Trump created DOGE with a two-year mandate to cut federal spending after Musk publicly projected roughly $2 trillion in savings.
- Investigations reported that DOGE inflated some claimed cuts, including figures later revised from $8 billion to $8 million at ICE and from $655 million to $18 million at USAID.
- Musk left the administration in May after a falling-out with the president and later reconciled, and Katie Miller, a former DOGE spokesperson, hosted the interview.