Elon Musk has called the Wall Street Journal report a "deliberately false article" and an "extremely bad breach of ethics."

With profits and the stock price sinking, board members told Musk he needed to spend more time at the company.

The billionaire Tesla CEO discussed in a White House interview a wide-ranging set topics including reflecting on the last few months in Washington.

Elon Musk might soon be leaving Washington, but he says DOGE needs to be a long-term project. Musk insisted in a TV interview that the project to slash government spending and eliminate entire agencies ought to endure amid signs that he may soon step away from the effort and return to his struggling electric car company.

The effort faces an uncertain future in a largely frozen Congress that has passed few bills since President Donald Trump took office in January.