The two men have long had a rivalry, and this isn't the first time the Microsoft cofounder has criticized Musk.

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.