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.

To date, the SEC hasn’t really felt the wrath of DOGE unlike other departments such as Education. The DOGE office has paper covering its windows, presumably because people like “Big Balls” — the moniker for one of Musk’s cost cutters — haven’t really started cutting stuff, people who have seen it say.