Trump's battle for America's attention: From the Politics Desk
President Donald Trump is looking to reshape the GOP’s relationship with the tech industry amid his battle for Americans’ attention.
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13 states to sue over DOGE access to government payment systems containing personal data
Democratic attorneys general in several states are vowing to file a lawsuit to stop Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing federal payment systems containing Americans’ ...
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Colorado will join multiple states to sue over Elon Musk and DOGE access to US Treasury
Colorado’s attorney general will join a multi-state lawsuit against the Trump Administration over tech billionaire Elon Musk’s access to the federal payment system, via the so-called Department of ...
Federal Judge Reins in Musk’s Treasury Digging
Moving fast and breaking things has long been the mantra of Silicon Valley, with results that haven’t always been appreciated ...
What is Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and what has it actually done so far?
Elon Musk arrives before the presidential inauguration in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20. (Chip Somodevilla/Pool ...
Why Does Elon Musk Think He Can Treat the U.S. Government Like Twitter?
The billionaire seems to be repeating his Twitter playbook. The question is why? And will he get away with it?
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Do Democrats Have a Plan?
Senator Brian Schatz on how the Party should be responding to Donald Trump’s breakneck assault on the government.
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Are Americans living through another Gilded Age? Historians say the answer is complicated
The government is larger today than it was back then, so there was less interest on the part of the oligarchs of the day to ...
Musk uses his X ownership and White House position to push Trump priorities, intimidate detractors
The emergence of X owner Elon Musk as the most influential figure around President Donald Trump has created an extraordinary ...
Musk associates sought to use critical Treasury payment system to shut down USAID spending, emails show
Four days after Donald Trump’s inauguration, Elon Musk’s top lieutenants at the Treasury Department asked its acting ...
Musk’s DOGE agents access sensitive personnel data, alarming security officials
Elon Musk’s DOGE team has accessed highly restricted data maintained by the Office of Personnel Management, including ...
Is it real or is it a trick? Federal workers debate legitimacy of buyout offer as deadline nears
The deadline for federal workers to receive financial incentives to quit is approaching. More than 2 million employees have ...