Tesla sales plunged by more than half last month in several European countries in a sign that Elon Musk could struggle to revive the company after he shifts from his Washington cost-cutting work to da

To date, the SEC hasn’t really felt the wrath of DOGE unlike other departments such as Education. The DOGE office has paper covering its windows, presumably because people like “Big Balls” — the moniker for one of Musk’s cost cutters — haven’t really started cutting stuff, people who have seen it say.

Elon Musk is defending the work of the Department of Government Efficiency as he prepares to scale back from his government role and spend more time at his businesses.

Elon Musk might soon be leaving Washington, but he says DOGE needs to be a long-term project. Musk insisted in a TV interview that the project to slash government spending and eliminate entire agencies ought to endure amid signs that he may soon step away from the effort and return to his struggling electric car company.