25 h. ago DOGE targets Census Bureau, worrying data users about health of US data infrastructure

The group run by Elon Musk and aides to cut federal spending in the second Trump administration is targeting surveys conducted by the U_S_ Census Bureau that it claims are “wasteful."

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41 h. ago House passes Trump’s ‘big beautiful’ tax and spending bill after months of wrangling – US politics live

Sweeping legislation will now be sent to the SenateThe Kremlin said on Thursday that a report in the Wall Street Journal which said US president Donald Trump had told European leaders that President Vladimir Putin did not want to end the war in Ukraine contrasted with its own knowledge.The Journal said Trump had briefed European leaders after talking to Putin by phone on Monday and said Putin wanted to keep fighting in Ukraine because he thought he was winning.With a narrow 220-212 majority, House Speaker Mike Johnson could not afford to lose more than a handful of votes from his side.Republicans on the party’s right flank had pushed for deeper spending cuts to lessen the budget impact, but they met resistance from centrists who worried they would fall too heavily on the 71 million low-income Americans enrolled in the Medicaid health program. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Elon Musk’s companies see reputations crumble as backlash from his work with DOGE hits his ventures

Hit to Tesla and SpaceX reputations comes as Musk grows less visible in White House role

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1 week ago Democrats fear Fetterman can’t handle stress of Senate and are looking for ways to help after bombshell report

‘Every time I see him, I’m worried about him,’ anonymous Democratic senator says of Pennsylvania colleague

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1 week ago Trump official who is taking over DOGE from Elon Musk revealed... and Democrats will be furious

He will soon take much of DOGE's workload, including working with Congress to recoup funds, reclassifying federal workers and advancing the proposed 2025 budget.

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1 week ago China has a big red button that hurts Elon Musk. But will they press it?

Tesla’s dependence on its Shanghai ‘gigafactory’ gives Chinese officials enormous leverage over one of Donald Trump’s key backers — which could prove an asset in the trade war, writes Io Dodds

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2 w. ago More than $220 million in contracts canceled by Musk and DOGE have been brought back

Revived contracts include everything from software license agreements to partnerships with vendors in charge of government data and records

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2 w. ago Bill Gates says Elon Musk is 'killing the world's poorest children' in extraordinary attack after DOGE closed US aid agency

The Microsoft co-founder, who is ramping up his own philanthropic efforts, has now said Musk's decision could spell disaster for the world's most destitute.

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2 w. ago Trump reportedly eyes $26m in funding cuts for US national parks

New York Times reports Elon Musk’s Doge agency has created spreadsheet of federal grants earmarked for cuts The Trump administration is reportedly eyeing dozens of grants across the National Park Service for termination, according to reporting from the New York Times, one of several moves destabilizing the US’s investment in public lands.According to the newspaper, staff members at Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” have created a spreadsheet of federal grants earmarked for cuts, with total funding cuts amounting to some $26m. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago My rare disease was getting closer to a cure. RFK Jr could undermine that | Jameson Rich

The Trump administration’s funding cuts to the NIH could destroy a wave of approaching research breakthroughsSince Robert F Kennedy Jr assumed control of the US health department in February, with a mandate to “[lower] chronic disease rates and [end] childhood chronic disease”, he has moved quickly to remake the US’s federal health infrastructure. But the Trump administration’s actions on medical research are already threatening that goal – and could end medical progress in this country for good.Kennedy’s office oversees the National Institutes of Health, the control center of disease research in the United States. Kennedy’s agency has killed almost 800 active projects, according to Nature, affecting medical research into HIV/Aids, diabetes, women’s health, heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s and more. The administration wants to cut the NIH’s budget up to 40% while consolidating its 27 agencies – separated by disease area – into just eight. Elon Musk’s Doge has been reviewing previo...

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3 w. ago Teenage DOGE staffer ‘Big Balls’ speaks about role in Musk’s cost

DOGE shows up in force on Fox as Musk vows its mission will continue even though he’s not longer at the White House

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3 w. ago Elon Musk protege 'Big Balls' breaks silence to reveal his role at DOGE

Elon Musk's elusive protégé Edward Coristine, 19, also known as 'Big Balls,' has spoken out for the first time to share his role at the agency.

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3 w. ago ‘Big Balls’ finally takes a bow as Elon Musk vows DOGE will keep carving up the government

DOGE shows up in force on Fox as Musk vows its mission will continue even though he’s not longer at the White House

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3 w. ago Musk slept in Lincoln bedroom and shared ice cream with Trump during his ‘intense’ 100 days reshaping DC

Billionaire says he spent as much as seven days a week in the U.S. capital as he established the Department of Government Efficiency

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3 w. ago Elon Musk's raging caps lock rant in response to claims Tesla are replacing him as CEO

To save his failing business, Elon Musk will reduce his role at DOGE, but has gone on an angry all caps rant disputing claims that the Tesla board are looking to replace him

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3 w. ago Move fast and destroy things: 100 chaotic days of Elon Musk in the White House

From mass firings to unprecedented influence, Musk has left little of the federal government untouched in Doge roleOne hundred days after Elon Musk entered the White House as Donald Trump’s senior adviser and the de facto leader of the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge), the Tesla CEO has left little of the federal government unscathed. Over the course of just a few months, he has gutted agencies and public services that took decades to build while accumulating immense political power.Musk’s role in the Trump administration is without modern precedent. Never before has the world’s richest person been deputized by the US president to cull the very agencies that oversee his businesses. Musk’s attempts to radically dismantle government bureaus have won him sprawling influence. His team has embedded its members in key roles across federal agencies, gained access to personal data on millions of Americans and fired tens of thousands of workers. SpaceX, where he is CEO,...

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3 w. ago Elon Musk and DOGE promised $2 trillion in savings. In reality, government spending is up

The Tump administration has reportedly spent more than 6 percent as the Biden administration during the same period even though federal jobs, services, agencies and contracts have been slashed

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3 w. ago Appellate court won't lift restrictions on DOGE access to Social Security information

A federal appeals court says it won’t lift restrictions on the access that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has to Social Security systems containing personal data on millions of Americans

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3 w. ago Elon Musk is no longer working from the White House, Trump’s chief of staff reveals

‘He’s just not physically present as much as he was,’ shared Susie Wiles after Musk said he would be focusing more time on Tesla

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3 w. ago Elon Musk is leaving Trump. Or is he? What’s next for DOGE’s ‘authoritarian’ wrecking ball

The world’s wealthiest man is ‘significantly’ stepping back from the White House, but the cost-cutting force isn’t going anywhere, Alex Woodward reports

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