DOGE was tasked with stopping Treasury payments to USAID, AP sources say
Officials working with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency sought access to the Treasury Department payment ...
With firings and lax enforcement, Trump moving to dismantle government’s public integrity guardrails
In the first three weeks of his administration, President Donald Trump has moved with brazen haste to dismantle the federal ...
Trump fires top US ethics official and head of agency dedicated to protecting whistleblowers
President Donald Trump has fired the federal government’s top ethics official as well as the leader of the agency dedicated ...
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Three weeks in, the change the Republican administration has brought is a disruption of the federal government.
Musk uses his X ownership and White House position to push Trump priorities, intimidate detractors
Musk’s use of the social media platform he owns has become both a cudgel and a megaphone for the Republican administration.
Are government-paid media subscriptions a 'scandal'? That's what Donald Trump is now asserting
Federal government payments to news outlets like Politico, The New York Times and The Associated Press for subscriptions or ...
Trump chops away at the government and the fallout is felt in the Virginia governor's race
The Trump administration’s aggressive push to cut government jobs is reverberating in the early stages of this year's race ...
House lawmakers push to ban AI app DeepSeek from US government devices
A bipartisan duo in the the U.S. House is proposing legislation to ban the Chinese artificial intelligence app DeepSeek from ...
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Trump and Musk’s dismantling of government is shaking the foundations of US democracy
WASHINGTON (AP) — When Elon Musk debuted the Department of Government Efficiency recently at the Capitol, House Speaker Mike Johnson enthusiastically predicted the coming Trump administration ...
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Musk uses his X ownership and White House position to push Trump priorities, intimidate detractors
WASHINGTON (AP) — The emergence of X owner Elon Musk ... of the world’s most powerful information platforms to sell the government’s talking points while intimidating its detractors.