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No, he's not. He's faking the entire premise of "DOGE" being about "efficiency" in order to obfuscate the fact that its real goal is to be a partisan purge, replacing career subject matter experts with MAGA loyalists at all levels of the bureaucracy.
Hell, he's not even trying to be sneaky about it! It's just the barest of fig-leaves, cynically designed to act as an exploit against journalistic ethical standards that naively require "objectively" reporting his claims as if they were being made in good faith. Even though the claims blatantly are not and everyone paying attention knows it, including the journalists themselves, the media can't call out the bullshit without upending decades of tradition and inviting even more attacks (also in bad faith) against their integrity than they're already getting.
And he is using it to quell regulations and investigations into Tesla and SpaceX. Which is a crystal clear conflict of interest and instead of the US Marshals deputizing his security staff they should be arresting him.
Quelling investigations into himself is the third thing in the "arson, murder, and jaywalking" ^[warning: TVTropes link]^ Musk is committing.