Tesla can’t just hit ‘undo’ on Elon’s D.C. adventure

Musk’s time in Washington left a crater—at Tesla, in public trust, and in EV sales. Exiting DOGE won’t unring the bell.

Elon Musk has a long history of overpromising and underdelivering. In the past decade, his sky-high predictions around everything from full self-driving Teslas to high-speed tunnels and manned missions to Mars have reliably failed to defy gravity. So it should come as no surprise that Musk’s just-announced departure from the Trump administration finds his DOGE project having saved a mere $175 billion of the $2 trillion in government spending he set his sights on.