Tesla’s chair Robyn Denholm has rejected a Wall Street Journal report that the company’s board has begun a search process for a new CEO to replace Elon Musk. The Journal reported Wednesday that Tesla’s board contacted executive placement firms in March to look for Musk’s replacement,

Musk has been spending a lot of time in Washington, D.C., as the public face of the Department of Government Efficiency.

Elon Musk has called the Wall Street Journal report a "deliberately false article" and an "extremely bad breach of ethics."