DOGE chief Elon Musk said that he is running his businesses "with great difficulty," as shares of his automotive firm Tesla suffered their worst drop in a half-decade. Musk also said during an interview on Fox Business that he expected to remain in the Trump administration for another year.

Elon Musk said in an interview that running his businesses while working with the White House has not been easy. Tesla stock declined 15% on Monday.

Tesla’s stock has dropped by nearly half in three months. Even so, investors are still debating whether Elon Musk's electric-vehicle maker remains overpriced. The company's market capitalization has dropped 45% since hitting an all-time high of $1.

Billionaire Elon Musk has suggested that Monday's series of outages on X, formerly Twitter, may have been caused by a foreign country. Musk, who owns X, has recently been facing heavy domestic criticism tied to his role in a push by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to enact major government cost-cutting measures and mass firings of federal workers at the direction of President Donald Trump.

For much of Monday — only the busiest offseason day for NFL transactions — Twitter was down. It's back up. For now. So what happened? Via Todd Spangler of Variety.com, Twitter owner Elon Musk said this,

Elon Musk has weighed in on the massive outages across X/Twitter on Monday. Beginning late this morning, X/Twitter began experiencing widespread outages, resulting in the site being down for much of the day.