U.S. — Washington was abuzz with the news that Elon Musk had officially stepped down from his duties as head of the Department of Government Efficiency. Musk said he will now spend his time tackling the much easier job of sending human beings to Mars.

Musk started DOGE with Vivek Ramaswamy and hit the ground running on President Donald Trump’s first day back in office. While Ramaswamy quickly abandoned the venture after coming to the conclusion that running for governor of Ohio was easier than cutting wasteful spending in Washington, D.C., Musk stayed on for several more months before he finally decided that figuring out how to send people to Mars was a far simpler endeavor.

“Working in government is a far more complicated and challenging job than inventing rockets capable of taking humans to other planets,” Musk said of his decision to leave DOGE. “Coming up with ways to make interplanetary travel a reality is one thing, but dealing with senators and congressmen is truly difficult. I look forward to having a more relaxing job of figuring out how to safely transport people to Mars, colonize it, and terraform the planet’s surface.”

Though Mars, the fourth planet from the sun, is a barren wasteland with unbreathable air and a surface completely devoid of liquid water, experts agreed that dramatically altering the atmosphere and topography of Mars with technology that doesn’t exist yet sounded much easier than permanently cutting government spending.

At publishing time, Musk was reportedly emboldened to accomplish his quest to make humanity an interplanetary race after realizing colonizing Mars was mankind’s only hope to escape government waste.

From our friends at The Babylon Bee.