Elon Musk, left, and President Donald Trump talk about DOGE's efforts to investigate wasteful U.S. government spending from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 11, 2025. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)
"I’m willing to contribute one to two days a week, coming to D.C. every other week for one to three days—indefinitely, as long as the president wants me to do that," Musk said. "It’s largely a volunteer organization."
Musk, in response to a question from Fox News Digital, said he has slept in the White House’s Lincoln bedroom multiple times.
"I didn’t think I would ever sleep in there," Musk said. "The president, we’re good friends, and we’ll be on Air Force One, or Marine One, and he’ll be like, ‘do you want to stay over?’ and I’ll be like, ‘sure,’ and he’ll send me to the Lincoln bedroom."
Musk said he did not ever "request it," but that Trump would always ask "'do you want to stay here?'"
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, right, speaks with then-former President Donald Trump during a campaign event at the Butler Farm Show on Oct. 5, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
"I like my comically tiny office upstairs," Musk said, adding that, while it is tiny, he has "the biggest monitor," where he views "important information—secret stuff." Musk admitted, though, that he has "occasionally played a video game."
When asked by Fox News Digital which video game, Musk laughed and said, "Diablo in the Path of Exile."
As for DOGE, Musk said he is proud of its work so far, and "in the grand scheme of things, I think we’ve been effective," just "not as effective as I’d like."
"I think we could be more effective, but we’ve made progress —and more progress than I think has happened since Clinton and Gore," Musk said. "It is ironic to see the Clinton and Gore speeches — they sound like DOGE. If you took a transcript and say who said it? DOGE or Clinton-Gore? You would have a hard time. They sound identical to what we say."
He added, "We are just Democrats from the '90s who got teleported into 2025."
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"Things have just evolved. There is that classic saying, we didn’t leave the Democratic Party — the Democratic Party left us," Musk continued. "Just, objectively, from a policy standpoint, that is just objectively true. Our goals are safe cities, secure borders, sensible spending—these used to be Democrat positions and perhaps they will be in the future — but they just seem like common sense."
Meanwhile, Musk reflected on his day-to-day for the first 100 days, saying that things "have to be very intense for the first three months, so trying to understand what’s going on and map out the government in general."
"The federal government is a gigantic beast — very complicated — and so if you’re trying to figure out how to stop waste and fraud, you’ve got to map the territory," Musk said. "That required three months of intense effort, and you have to build the team as well."
President Donald Trump, right, is joined by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and his son, X Musk, during an executive order signing in the Oval Office at the White House on Feb. 11, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Musk also said he will meet with the House DOGE caucus next week, and said his work with House and Senate lawmakers has been "extremely positive."
At the end of the conversation, Musk laughed and said, "It is funny that we’ve got DOGE."
"Are we in a simulation here? Or what’s going on? How did we get here?!" Musk laughed.
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"I’m proud of the incredible work by the DOGE team who have taken a lot of flak and these are people who could easily get high-paying jobs in the private sector, and, in fact, came from high-paying jobs in the private sector," Musk said.
DOGE has fewer than 100 employees.
"Some will stay on, some will not," Musk said. "It is up to them. This is basically a volunteer organization."
When asked if DOGE is winding down, Musk said, "No."
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"DOGE is a way of life," Musk said. "Like Buddhism. You wouldn’t ask who would lead Buddhism."
When asked who would lead DOGE when Musk is not in Washington, Musk replied, "Is Buddha needed for Buddhism?"
Brooke Singman is a political correspondent and reporter for Fox News Digital, Fox News Channel and FOX Business.
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