Elon Musk says he’ll be spending less time in Washington slashing government costs and more time running Tesla after his electric vehicle company reported a big drop in profits. Musk said on a conference call with analysts Tuesday that “now that the major work of establishing Department of Government Efficiency is done,

Tesla sales have been slumping because of intense competition from China and Musk’s support of far-right causes, which has turned off some liberals and centrists.

A sobering quarterly report puts more prssure on Tesla’s chief executive to make good on his promises for fully autonomous vehicles.