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.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced last month that he would cut his hours at the White House as Director of the Department of Government Efficiency.

Elon Musk cut a swath through the nation’s capital with little care for rules or tradition. Literally and metaphorically, he took a chainsaw to some of America’s great institutions. And then he did what he often does.