As the first week of Trump’s second term gets underway, the not-quite-real Department of Government Efficiency is both struggling and expanding its remit.
Elon Musk is Already Driving White House Aides Nuts Less than a week into Trump’s term, Musk is already causing headaches for the administration.
A new crack has appeared in the alliance between President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk, who helped bankroll much of Trump's voter outreach operation and now heads up his "Department of Government Efficiency" task force.
Elizabeth Warren's recommendations for Elon Musk's DOGE include cutting Department of Defense spending and cracking down on Medicare fraud.
A deep philosophical rift between the two billionaire leaders of the “Department of Government Efficiency” left Musk alone at its top, which could give him more power than envisioned
Donald Trump’s staff are “furious” over Musk for using his social media platform, X, to blast the infrastructure deal that Trump called “tremendous” and “monumental”.
Despite the reports of his gubernatorial ambitions, multiple reports say Mr. Ramaswamy was driven out of DOGE by Mr. Musk. He “just burned through the bridges and he finally burned Elon,” a Republican strategist close to Trump advisers told Politico. “Everyone wants him out of Mar-a-Lago, out of D.C.”
President Donald Trump kicked off his first day back in the White House with executive orders directed to address what he calls an "energy emergency" — ostensibly to increase American production of oil and gas.
Despite the solid job market and low 4.1% unemployment rate, he has to contend with headwinds like inflation, a budget deficit, increased tensions over trade, the fallout from his plans to curtail immigration and a persistent wealth gap.
Addressing a hall of 4,500 people alongside party leader Alice Weidel, Musk spoke live via video link about preserving German culture and protecting the German people