SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said that the Department of Government Efficiency that he heads “is just becoming the whipping boy for everything,” including issues they weren’t involved in.
Musk told The Washington Post in an interview released Tuesday that there had been repercussions over the DOGE cuts.
“DOGE is just becoming the whipping boy for everything,” Musk said. “So, like, something bad would happen anywhere, and we would get blamed for it even if we had nothing to do with it.”
He also noted how his companies were impacted by it.
“People were burning Teslas,” Musk said. “Why would you do that? That’s really uncool.”
DOGE will now focus “a bit more like tackling projects with the highest gain for the pain, which still means a lot of good things in terms of reducing waste and fraud,” he added.
“The federal bureaucracy situation is much worse than I realized,” Musk said. “I thought there were problems, but it sure is an uphill battle trying to improve things in D.C., to say the least.”
He noted that there are many broken computers the federal government uses, resulting in inefficiency.
“There’s, like, so many situations where the computers are so broken, even in the intelligence world,” where to transfer “data from one computer to another, you have to print it out and then type it into the next computer. And this is just literally a thing that was brought to my attention,” Musk said.
