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.

Elon Musk suggested his cost-cutting government project DOGE should take a closer look at the Fed’s spending, especially the $2.5 billion it has spent to remodel its Washington D.C. headquarters. Musk’s comments come as he is set to “significantly” cut back his time at DOGE in part to focus on his EV company Tesla.

Elon Musk promised that the Department of Government Efficiency’s efforts will not stop even as his time in the Trump administration is expected to come to a close at the end of this month. Musk and his DOGE team sat down with Fox News’s Jesse Watters at the DOGE headquarters in an interview that aired