{"id":163729,"date":"2025-04-22T21:47:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T21:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/22\/elon-musk-says-he-may-keep-doing-doge-work-for-the-remainder-of-trumps-term-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T21:47:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T21:47:14","slug":"elon-musk-says-he-may-keep-doing-doge-work-for-the-remainder-of-trumps-term-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/22\/elon-musk-says-he-may-keep-doing-doge-work-for-the-remainder-of-trumps-term-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk says he may keep doing DOGE work for &#8216;the remainder&#8217; of Trump&#8217;s term | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tesla CEO Elon Musk says he may keep doing work with the Department of Government Efficiency through the remainder of President Donald Trump\u2019s second term, amid calls for him to step away from politics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Musk said he plans to reduce his role with DOGE to a \u201cday or two\u201d per week starting next month, \u201cor as long as the President would like me to do so, and as long as it is useful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The executive made his comments on Tesla\u2019s quarterly earnings call, just about an hour-and-a-half after Tesla admitted in a shareholder letter that \u201cpolitical sentiment\u201d is harming the company\u2019s sales. Combined with other factors \u2014 increased demand, tariffs \u2014 Musk\u2019s involvement in the Trump administration helped drive a 71% drop in profit compared to the first quarter of last year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This story is developing\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/04\/22\/elon-musk-says-he-may-keep-doing-doge-work-for-the-remainder-of-trumps-term\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla CEO Elon Musk says he may keep doing work with the Department of Government Efficiency through the remainder of President Donald Trump\u2019s second term, amid calls for him to step away from politics. Musk said he plans to reduce his role with DOGE to a \u201cday or two\u201d per week starting next month, \u201cor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":163730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-163729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}