Elon Musk thinks the DOGE government-cutting operation is doing the best it can, given its limited power, the billionaire Trump administration adviser said Tuesday.
Musk downplayed his own authority as the head of the DOGE operation and defended its work so far in a video interview that aired at Bloomberg’s Qatar Economic Forum. His remarks came as Musk has said publicly that he plans to step back from his DOGE work and focus more on his electric vehicle company, Tesla.
“I am simply an adviser. I don’t have formal power,” Musk said Tuesday. “The president can choose to accept my advice or not.”
Musk rejected the suggestion that his vast business interests pose a potential conflict of interest, given his role in advising the Trump administration’s sweeping overhaul of the federal bureaucracy.
