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.

Asked whether Doge had achieved what he’d hoped, Musk said: “We were a little bit successful. We were somewhat successful.” ‘We’re being treated as grifters or terrorists’: US federal workers on the fear and chaos of their firings Read more

Doge created chaos and distress

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