Former Trump adviser Elon Musk told Katie Miller that he would not undertake DOGE again and said he should instead have focused on his companies; the statement was a personal retrospective, not an audit of DOGE's effects.
Musk said he would not repeat his DOGE assignment
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- Musk was outside government and described the assignment as something he would not do again
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