What is the Department of Government Efficiency? It’s a question that has come up over and over again in the avalanche of court cases challenging […]
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DOGE Faces Scrutiny as Senate Democrats Call for Investigation Into Elon Musk’s Cuts
Top Senate Democrats on Friday asked the internal watchdogs of more than a dozen government agencies to investigate job cuts carried out at the direction […]
Elon Musk’s Role in Dismantling USAID Likely Violated Constitution, Judge Finds
Efforts by Elon Musk and his team to permanently shutter the U.S. Agency for International Development likely violated the Constitution “in multiple ways” and robbed […]
Courts Defer to Executive Branch Factual Claims. Trump Complicates That.
The government typically has an advantage when defending its policies against legal challenges. Courts generally defer to the executive branch’s factual declarations and formal representations […]
DOGE Staff Marches Into U.S. Institute of Peace and Evicts Its Officials
A simmering dispute between the Department of Government Efficiency and an independent agency dedicated to promoting peace broke into an open standoff involving the police […]
Making Sense of DOGE’s Cuts
Elon Musk has promised to take a chain saw to the federal government with his Department of Government Efficiency. It has been difficult, though, to […]
Why the Arabic ‘Sesame Street’ and Other Cuts Are Not Really About Fraud
When President Trump talks about the “hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud” that Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team has uncovered in the federal government, he […]
Rejected by Washington, Federal Workers Find Open Arms in State Governments
Where the federal government sees waste, states see opportunity — both to serve as a counterweight to the Trump administration and to recruit some much-needed […]
Trump Orders Gutting of 7 Agencies, Including Voice of America’s Parent
President Trump signed an executive order on Friday seeking to dismantle seven additional federal agencies, including the one that oversees Voice of America and other […]
Why Trump’s Tesla Showcase Mattered to Elon Musk
It wasn’t so long ago that Elon Musk couldn’t even get an invitation to the White House. The year was 2021, and President Joe Biden […]