In an interview with Larry Kudlow of Fox on Monday, billionaire Elon Musk admitted that his involvement with the Ministry of Government (DOGE), Donald Trump’s initiative to reduce federal expenses, makes it more difficult to manage its many companies: X, Tesla, XAI, SpaceX, The Pensiony Company and Starlink.
“How do you run your other companies?” Asked Kudlow at some point.
“With great difficulty,” replied Musk. “Frankly, I cannot believe that I am doing here.”
Musk and Doge, which has around 100 staff members – a number that Musk plans to climb to 200 – has been criticized for too promising and underpinned to discounts of expenditure between American government agencies. Subcontracting government experts say that the DOGE online reduction dossier Contains inaccurate information And Inflect the allegations of “savings” by including deceptive mathematics on the cancellations of the contract.
DOGE has also endangered the data and IT of the United States in its work, According to cybersecurity analysts. Doge’s staff members, some of whom have little experience with government systems, would have accessed agencies by unofficial means and copied this data to unprotected servers.
While Musk complains that his work as an advisor Dog has stretched him, the billionaire was accused of having used the initiative of weakening the regulations that oversee his businesses.
DOGE has emptied the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which was about to extend the monitoring of peer payment systems, including the next virtual portfolio product of X. It has reduced the staff of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which had opened probes on the dangers posed by the assisted driving technologies of Tesla. Elsewhere, DOGE dismissed probation employees of the Federal Aviation Administration, which had proposed sanctions for security violations in SpaceX. And DOGE has put pressure on significant staff at the Securities and Exchange Commission, with which Musk has a longtime quarrel.
When asked by Kudlow if he extended his involvement in Doge by “Another Year”, Musk said: “Yeah”.
“We just get things done, instead of writing a report,” added Musk. “As, relationships do not mean anything. You really have to act.
