Elon Musk opened Tesla’s earnings call with comments defending the work he was doing with the Department of Government Efficiency. “Working for the government to get the financial house in order is mostly done,” he said. “I think starting probably next month in May, my time allocation to DOGE will drop significantly.”

Elon Musk says setting up DOGE ‘mostly done

Tesla CEO Elon Musk opened his company’s earnings call with comments defending the work he was doing with the Department of Government Efficiency.

“Working for the government to get the financial house in order is mostly done,” he said, noting that the DOGE work was necessary. “I think starting probably next month in May, my time allocation to DOGE will drop significantly.”

He added that he expects to keep working for the government one or two days a week for the remainder of the Trump presidency to “make sure that the waste and fraud that we stopped does not come roaring back.” But he noted that he will start shifting more time and attention back to Tesla.