Elon Musk

Sara Busse needed to make a hot meal for 40 needy seniors. She had promised a main dish, a starch, a vegetable, a fruit and a dessert.

In the past, she had gotten many of those ingredients for free from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

This time, she had dried cranberries, crackers and vegetable soup.

“What am I supposed to do?” she said. “What am I supposed to cook?”

Department of Government Efficiency chief Elon Musk told Tesla shareholders on Tuesday that he’s planning to dramatically cut back on his work for the Trump administration next month. 

“Starting next month, I will be allocating far more of my time to Tesla,” the electric car company CEO said on Tesla earnings call, according to Business Insider. 

Tesla boss Elon Musk has pledged to "significantly" cut back his role in the US government after the electric car firm reported a huge drop in profit and sales for the start of this year.

Musk has led the newly created advisory body - the Department for Government Efficiency (Doge) - since last year, putting the world's richest man at the heart of cutting US spending and jobs.

But Musk said his "time allocation to Doge" would "drop significantly" from next month, adding he would spend only one to two days per week on it after accusations he has taken his focus off Tesla.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he’d be reducing his time with the Department of Government Efficiency beginning next month after the company reported disappointing earnings, missing Wall Street expectations.

Musk said in a Tuesday earnings call that he would begin stepping back from his Trump administration role next month and return his focus to his ailing EV brand.

He added that the ongoing Tesla blowback, consisting of nationwide protests and violent vehicle attacks, left him with two options: Let the government’s waste and fraud continue or fight it.

Elon Musk has vowed to spend “significantly” less time working for Donald Trump’s administration and focus on Tesla after profits plummeted to a five-year low.

The electric car company’s net income slumped by 71pc to $409m in the three months to the end of March, marking its least profitable quarter since 2020.

Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency he leads claim to have unearthed evidence to prove a longstanding conspiracy theory about Democrats orchestrating illegal voting by noncitizens on a scale large enough to swing national elections in their favor. But voting experts say the claims are highly dubious, and DOGE hasn’t released any evidence.

Elon Musk allegedly offered to impregnate right-wing influencer Tiffany Fong - then retaliated by harming her X earnings when she declined his approach, per a new report.

The SpaceX founder, 53, is said to be creating a 'legion' of offspring, offering women he deems as intelligent the chance to discreetly bear his children in exchange for millions of dollars.

Fong, who gained notoriety during Sam Bankman-Fried’s downfall, was one of the women approached by Musk on X, according to a bombshell report on the Wall Street Journal.

NASA’s science budget could be cut nearly in half under an early version of President Donald Trump’s budget proposal to Congress, a move that would terminate billions of dollars’ worth of ongoing and future missions, according to two individuals with direct knowledge of the administration’s plan.

Federal spending is higher since President Trump took office even as the Department of Government Efficiency slashes contracts, cuts jobs and ends diversity programs.

A Wall Street Journal analysis of daily financial statements issued by the Treasury Department found government spending since the inauguration is $154 billion more than in the same period in 2024 during the administration of President Joe Biden.

DOGE claims cuts of $150 billion so far, but the Journal analysis found those efforts have yet to affect the bottom line.