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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Technology
Edward Helmore

Musk calls Doge only ‘somewhat successful’ and says he would not do it again

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Elon Musk looks on during a press conference with Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington DC on 30 May 2025. Photograph: Shutterstock

Elon Musk has said the aggressive federal job-cutting program he headed early in Donald Trump’s second term, known as the “department of government efficiency” (Doge), was only “a little bit successful” and he would not lead the project again.

Musk said he wouldn’t want to repeat the exercise, talking on the podcast hosted by Katie Miller, a rightwing personality with a rising profile who was a Doge adviser and who is married to Stephen Miller, Donald Trump’s hardline anti-immigration deputy chief of staff.

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