Elon Musk says the major work of establishing DOGE is done and calls it a 'way of life, like Buddhism'

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It looks like Elon Musk is ready to take a back seat in the Trump White House. 

The Tesla CEO held an hourlong Q&A session with reporters in the White House’s Roosevelt Room this week, during which he said he felt the majority of his work establishing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was done, although it has not lived up to his expectations. “In the grand scheme of things, I think we’ve been effective. Not as effective as I like…but we made progress,” he told reporters.