Elon Musk has reportedly instructed folks he’s been sleeping in his Washington, D.C. authorities workplace, the place he’s working to construct Donald Trump’s Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE).
The DOGE workplace is housed contained in the Eisenhower Government Workplace Constructing, roughly 4 minutes from the West Wing on foot. In keeping with Wired, Musk instructed pals at a black tie occasion final week that he’d been invited to sleep within the Lincoln Bed room contained in the White Home itself.
The Tesla and SpaceX founder has develop into particularly near President Trump since spending greater than $250 million to assist get the Republican chief get reelected. Musk’s web price jumped 77% after Trump received the presidency for a second time, based on Bloomberg. He’s believed to be price $400 billion, making Musk by far the world’s richest individual.
Previous to Trump’s inauguration final week, Musk had reportedly been taking over residency in a $2,000-a-day cottage at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property earlier than following his “First Buddy” to the nation’s capital. It’s unclear who picked up that tab.
Whereas Musk might certainly afford his personal residence in Washington, the 53-year-old entrepreneur has a historical past of sleeping the place he works. He mentioned in a 2002 interview that he spent three years sleeping both on a rooftop couch or beneath his desk so his Tesla manufacturing facility staff might remember to see him each time they got here to work.
“They knew I was there and that made a huge difference, and then they gave it their all,” he mentioned, saying it was necessary to him that his staff didn’t assume he was “off somewhere having a good time, drinking Mai Tais on a tropical island.”
In keeping with Musk his office was his “primary residence” throughout that interval.
Musk and tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy have been tapped in November to co-lead DOGE as an unofficial company designed to slash authorities spending. Nevertheless, Ramaswamy left DOGE earlier this month and now hopes to run for governor of Ohio.
The concept of DOGE was mocked from the beginning by critics together with Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who joked on X that forming a brand new company headed by “two people to do the work of one person” appeared “REALLY” environment friendly.
Musk countered by claiming neither he nor Ramaswamy could be paid for his or her work.
