Under Elon Musk's leadership, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has managed to eliminate over $160 billion in wasteful spending.

Musk confessed this week that the job has brought new experiences, including frequent stays in the Lincoln Bedroom.

"I didn’t think I would ever sleep in there"

According to Fox News, Musk made the admission while conversing with reporters about President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office.

"I didn’t think I would ever sleep in there," Musk remarked as he spoke in the White House's Roosevelt Room on Wednesday.

"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."

The tech mogul and Tesla CEO stressed that while he did not "request" such accommodations, Trump would nevertheless offer them.

Musk has routinely worked "7 days a week, or close to 7 days a week"

Musk also addressed his future in the Trump administration, with Fox News noting that he is classified as a special government employee.

The designation allows him to serve for "no more than 130 days in a 365-day period," and Musk explained that he was extremely busy during Trump's first 100 days in office.

Musk characterized it as being a particularly "intense period" which routinely saw him working "7 days a week, or close to 7 days a week."

Regarding his future at the White House, Musk indicated that he is "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."

Official calls on Congress to make DOGE cuts permanent

Musk isn't the only reason that DOGE has made headlines recently, as Breitbart noted that entrepreneur and chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology David Sacks called attention to it as well late last month.

During an episode of the "All In" podcast, which he cohosts alongside Andrew Ross Sorkin, Jason Calacanis, and David Friedberg, Sacks asked that Congress address "all of the corruption that Elon Musk has found and eliminate it from the budget."

.@DavidSacks: "What we really need is for Congress to now embrace all of the corruption that @elonmusk has found and eliminate it from the budget, because at the end of the day, in order to capture the savings here, we do need those appropriations eliminated from the budget." pic.twitter.com/BJbk4GSm0A

— Josh Caplan (@joshdcaplan) April 26, 2025

Sacks went on to worry that "these old bulls in Congress, the people who control the appropriations process" might "backslide and just and just put the spending back in."