Elon Musk admitted that he wouldn’t go back and lead the so-called Department of Government Efficiency again, knowing what he knows now.
Musk, in an interview with former DOGE adviser Katie Miller, said he was “somewhat” successful in his brief time in the temporary role, which ended in May. But the negative reaction by the public was enough to dissuade him from reprising it in the future, he suggested.
“If you could go back and start from scratch like it’s January 20th all again, would you go back and do it differently?” Miller, the 34-year-old wife of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, asked. “And, knowing what you know now, do you think there’s ever a place to restart?”
“I mean, no, I don’t think so,” Musk, 54, said in Tuesday’s episode after a pause. “I think instead

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