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Eleanor Pringle

Musk appears alongside Trump in the White House to admit mistakes will happen in DOGE’s major government reform: ‘Nobody is going to bat 1,000’

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, accompanied by U.S. President Donald Trump (R), and his son X Musk, speaks during an executive order signing in the Oval Office at the White House on February 11 (Credit: Andrew Harnik—Getty Images)
  • Elon Musk admitted he would make errors in his work at DOGE, but work quickly to rectify them, after he was asked if the department had mistaken Hamas-controlled Gaza for the region of Gaza in Mozambique. He also outlined plans to build trust in his push to make government more efficient.

President Donald Trump was joined by Tesla CEO Elon Musk in the Oval Office for a press conference yesterday, where the entrepreneur was questioned about apparent errors in information he has shared since taking on the role leading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

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