Billionaire Elon Musk says his stint leading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) under President Donald Trump was “a little bit successful," though he now believes he would have been better off focusing on his companies. Musk made the remarks in a podcast released Tuesday, hosted by Katie Miller, a former DOGE spokeswoman and wife of Trump’s deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller.

Musk headed DOGE from a small office in the executive branch complex, where he was tasked with executing sweeping cost-cutting measures across the federal workforce and government agencies during Trump’s second term. His tenure ended abruptly after a highly public break with Trump in June over the administration’s flagship tax and spending bill, which Musk described as “utterly insane and destructive."

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