Ice cream from Trump and a 'comically tiny office': Inside Elon Musk's wild 3 months getting DOGE rolling
Musk reveals multiple overnights in the White House Lincoln bedroom, says DOGE will continue like Buddhism without Buddha
By Brooke Singman Fox News
Published May 1, 2025 7:26am EDT | Updated May 1, 2025 9:05am EDT
Elon Musk says he saved the U.S. taxpayer more than $160 billion during his first three months getting the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) off the ground — but he also enjoyed midnight snacks of ice cream from the White House kitchen, a "comically tiny office" and a friendship with President Donald Trump.
Fox News Digital was invited, along with a small group of reporters, to have an on-the-record discussion with Musk in the White House's Roosevelt Room on Wednesday evening about his first 100 days as a special government employee.
That status allowed him to work for the federal government for "no more than 130 days in a 365-day period," according to data from the Office of Government Ethics. Musk said the first 100 days was "an intense period" and said at times, he was in Washington, D.C., working on his DOGE efforts "7 days a week, or close to 7 days a week."
Musk said he will cut that down to one or two days a week, or every other week, and will continue working for the Trump administration "at the discretion of the president."
"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?'"
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