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Last Updated:May 03, 2025, 11:16 IST
While Musk's tenure as a special government employee at DOGE is set to end on May 30, he will continue to contribute to the department on a part-time basis.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk (Photo Credits: X)
Elon Musk’s tenure in the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is set to end in May. As he is stepping down from his role, a reporter asked Musk what would happen to the department after that. Responding to the question asked to him at the White House, the Tesla owner compared himself and Buddha and asked if Buddha was needed for Buddhism.
“Is Buddha needed for Buddhism? Was it not stronger after he passed away?" Musk replied, as per the Washington Post. “DOGE is kind of a way of life we make converts all the time," he added.
Musk’s tenure as a special government employee at DOGE will end on May 30. He further told the reporters that despite his official tenure coming to an end, he will still help the department on a part-time basis, with his involvement also depending on the wishes of President Donald Trump.
“I’m willing to contribute on average one to two days a week, which, you know, probably means coming to DC every other week for three days type of thing. As indefinitely as long as the president wants me to do it," Musk said.
“Obviously, if the president or the cabinet has an emergency that they want me to respond to, then I’ll do that. But otherwise, it’s just—I think it’s pretty manageable with one to two days on average," he added.
While he’ll now spend less time in Washington, he’ll keep his office on the White House grounds, Musk told reporters. That office, he said, according to Axios, “has a window, but all you see is the HVAC unit, which is fine. It makes it harder to shoot me, I guess."
This comes on the same day when a report from the Wall Street Journal claimed that Tesla and its board were searching for a new CEO.
Musk, however, called it a “deliberately false article."
“It is an EXTREMELY BAD BREACH OF ETHICS that the @WSJ would publish a DELIBERATELY FALSE ARTICLE and fail to include an unequivocal denial beforehand by the Tesla board of directors!," Musk said, responding to the report on X.
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