
As Tesla's sales and profit tumble, investors ask Elon Musk to ditch DOGE and return to automaker
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk is facing a corporate reckoning on Tuesday with the electric car maker's first-quarter results showing sales and profit fell far short of analyst expectations while the billionaire was focused on running the Trump administration's cost-cutting efforts.
Ahead of the quarterly report, investors submitted questions to Tesla that they hope to get answered on the company's earnings conference call. A top issue flagged by investors is Elon Musk himself, with dozens asking about Musk's focus on the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, and when he might return his energies to running Tesla.
"Can Elon please provide some reassurance that at some point soon he will be done with DOGE and politics?" one investor asked. "Many Tesla shareholders wish he would reprioritize the majority of his time and effort to engineering."

The leaders of a sex-focused women's wellness company that promoted "orgasmic meditation" were found guilty Monday in what has been described as an abusive scheme to coerce their employees into performing traumatic and demeaning tasks with little or no pay, authorities said. A Brooklyn jury deliberated for less than two days before convicting Nicole Daedone, 57, and Rachel Cherwitz, 44, on federal forced labor charges, following a five-week trial.

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