Musk: 'DOGE is just becoming the whipping boy for everything'

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk say the Department of Government Efficiency that he led "is just becoming the whipping boy for everything," including matters in which the agency was not involved. 

Musk made the comment in a Washington Post interview released Tuesday about the agency, which has attempted to significantly reduce the size of the federal government in large part by slashing government jobs and shuttering entire agencies. Such efforts have frequently been met by lawsuits. 

"DOGE is just becoming the whipping boy for everything," Musk said. "So, like, something bad would happen anywhere, and we would get blamed for it even if we had nothing to do with it."

The interview does not appear to include specific examples cited by Musk, an entrepreneur considered the world's richest man. 

He also pointed out how his electric car company was the focal point of backlash. 

"People were burning Teslas," said Musk, who recently said he's now devoting his efforts "24-7" to his companies. "Why would you do that? That's really uncool."

DOGE will now focus "a bit more like tackling projects with the highest gain for the pain, which still means a lot of good things in terms of reducing waste and fraud," he also said/ "The federal bureaucracy situation is much worse than I realized. I thought there were problems, but it sure is an uphill battle trying to improve things in D.C., to say the least."

He cited many broken computers the federal government uses, resulting in inefficiency.

"There's, like, so many situations where the computers are so broken, even in the intelligence world," where to transfer "data from one computer to another, you have to print it out and then type it into the next computer. And this is just literally a thing that was brought to my attention," Musk said.