Since last month, Elon Musk has said he would begin to wind down his work at the Department of Government Efficiency and return to his companies.

But is Musk done with DOGE for good?

The Tesla CEO and Donald Trump were inseparable for the first few months of the president’s second term.

Cracks in the relationship are visible after Musk criticized Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill.

“I was disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decreases it, and undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing,” Musk told CBS News in an interview published Tuesday.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates Trump’s bill would add $2.3 trillion to the deficit.

“I think a bill can be big or it can be beautiful,” Musk continued, “but I don’t know if it can be both. My personal opinion.”

Over the weekend, Musk tweeted that he would be “super focused” on his business endeavors instead of DOGE.

“Back to spending 24/7 at work and sleeping in conference/server/factory rooms,” he tweeted. “I must be super focused on 𝕏/xAI and Tesla (plus Starship launch next week), as we have critical technologies rolling out.”

The tweet comes a month after Musk said he would spend less time at DOGE, which aims to shred $2 trillion from the federal budget and has grossly overexaggerated its cuts.

“I think I’ll continue to spend a day or two per week on government matters for as long as the president would like me to do so and as long as it is useful,” Musk said on Tesla’s latest earnings call, according to Yahoo! Finance.

In a Tuesday interview with the Washington Post, Musk lamented that DOGE acted as a “whipping boy.”

“DOGE is just becoming the whipping boy for everything,” he said, according to the Post. “So, like, something bad would happen anywhere, and we would get blamed for it even if we had nothing to do with it.”

But Musk did not say his time spent on DOGE was done.

“There’s, like, so many situations where the computers are so broken,” he said, “even in the intelligence world,” where in order to transfer “data from one computer to another, you have to print it out and then type it into the next computer. And this is just literally a thing that was brought to my attention,” Musk told the Post.