"The federal bureaucracy situation is much worse than I realized," he said. "I thought there were problems, but it sure is an uphill battle trying to improve things in DC, to say the least.”
Musk announced in late April he was stepping back from government to run his companies again.
He said in May that he did not achieve all his goals with DOGE even though tens of thousands of people were removed from government payrolls and several government departments were gutted or shut down altogether.
Musk told The Post he would keep working with DOGE but focus on upgrading federal government computer systems rather than firing more people.