After 130 days, Elon Musk's tenure at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) ended yesterday as scheduled. What remains are key revelations of systemic corruption — and the sobering realization that modern government is a reform-proof, power-entrenched apparatus. “The federal bureaucracy situation is much worse than I realized. I thought there were problems, but it sure is an uphill battle trying to improve things in D.C., to say the least,” according to Musk.