The Department of Defense identified probationary employees and provided that list to the Department of Government Efficiency, which is set to audit the department’s spending. In the first month of the Trump administration,

DOGE staffers were at the Pentagon on Tuesday and receiving lists of the military’s probationary employees, U.S. officials said.

The IRS started laying off employees on Thursday, just as tax season kicks in to high gear. Why it matters: The terminations, reportedly of 6,000 relatively new workers at the agency, are part of President Trump's broader purge of the federal workforce.

Some collections and audits are likely to be paused, and one-on-one personal service is set to be more limited.

A federal judge has refused to immediately block Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing government data systems or participating in worker layoffs.

A pair of federal judges, in two separate cases, filed rulings that allow DOGE to continue its track of finding government waste and slashing it.

A federal judge is refusing to temporarily block the Trump administration’s mass layoff of federal workers while a lawsuit brought by five unions moves forward

President Donald Trump signaled he was open to the possibility of sending out stimulus checks to Americans using funds cut from the federal budget by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. The idea was initially floated on social media by Azoria CEO James Fishback.

Social media users are calling for stimulus checks funded by cuts made by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency. Here's what we know.