() Elon Musk says he’ll be spending less time in Washington slashing government costs and more time running his electric vehicle company, Tesla.

“Starting probably in [the] next month, May, my time allocation to DOGE will drop significantly,” Musk said on a Tesla earnings call Tuesday evening. “I’ll have to continue doing it for, I think, the remainder of the president’s term just to make sure that the waste and fraud doesn’t come roaring back, which we’ll do, if it has the chance.”

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The tech billionaire said he will likely spend one to two days of the week on “government matters” for “as long as the president would like me to do so and as long as it is useful,” but he noted the major work of establishing DOGE is done.

May 30 marks the end of Musk’s special government status, and dozens of Democratic lawmakers called on Trump earlier this month to confirm Musk will leave his role in the administration by that date.

His impending step back from DOGE comes as Musk faces mounting scrutiny over his leadership of DOGE, which has involved mass layoffs at federal agencies and the gutting of federal spending programs.

DOGE claimed in February it had found $55 billion in savings, touting layoffs, canceled contracts, lease renegotiations and fraud detection in the first month of the second Trump administration. However, a closer examination of the numbers raises doubts about those claims.

The website’s listing mentions USAID and the Department of Education as the two largest agencies contributing to contract savings. It even features a “wall of receipts” showing the reported spending slashes.

Despite claiming billions of dollars in savings, DOGE has not provided evidence for approximately $38 billion of that nearly 75% of its total claim.

For example, DOGE claims to have saved $8 billion by canceling a tech support contract for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Office of Diversity and Civil Rights. However, that contract value was worth just $8 million, with the $8 billion figure likely due to a clerical error from when the government first filed the contract.

Despite apparent accounting issues, Republicans continue to voice their support for Musk and DOGE.

“I think American voters like the intensity and focus that they’ve seen from 30-some days of this administration going about doing the things they told voters they were going to do. Doing the things they were elected to do,” Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said on “Fox News Sunday.”

“When you’re staring down $36 trillion in debt and counting, obviously something has to give, and I think that’s what we’re seeing right now. A comprehensive forensic audit of every department and agency in the federal government,” Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., said on ABC’s “This Week.”

DOGE has stated it will update its savings website twice a week, so corrections could be forthcoming.

Musk’s time at the White House featured several moments of a billionaire gaining unprecedented access to the U.S. government.

Musk, in February, took a star turn at the first Cabinet meeting of Trump’s new term, holding forth in a black “Make America Great Again” campaign hat about his role as “humble tech support” for the federal government and laying out dire stakes if his cost-cutting efforts fail.

In March, Musk visited the Pentagon to discuss reducing costs another privilege typically reserved for law enforcement and government officials.

Musk’s business interests also took center stage during his time at the White House.

Trump shopped for a new Tesla on the White House driveway in March, selecting a red sedan to show his support for Musk‘s electric vehicle company as it faced blowback because of his work to advance the president’s political agenda and downsize the federal government.

The Associated Press and affiliate The Hill contributed to this report.