Trump has also nominated a commissioner for the agency. President Donald Trump has replaced the head of the Social Security Administration (SSA), the White House said on Feb. 18. “The agency will be led by a career Social Security anti-fraud expert as the acting commissioner,” White House spokesman Harrison Fields told The Epoch Times in
Elon Musk can only advise Trump and communicate the president’s directives, a White House official said. Elon Musk is not an employee of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and does not have the authority to make decisions, the White House said in new court filings on Feb. 17. Both DOGE and a subunit of
Contract cancellations alone accounted for about 20 percent of the overall savings, DOGE stated. The Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, led by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, said its cost-cutting efforts across several federal agencies have saved an estimated $55 billion as of Feb. 17. The savings came from a combination of fraud deletion, contract
The White House limited AP reporters’ access in response to the news agency’s refusal to adopt ‘Gulf of America.’ The Trump administration has announced that it was restricting Associated Press journalists’ access to certain areas frequented by the president, including the Oval Office and Air Force One, part of a continuing demonstration of President Donald
The case revolves around data submitted when college students applied for financial aid. A federal judge declined to block the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing the Department of Education’s student financial aid data on Feb. 17. The ruling stems from a lawsuit brought by the University of California Students Association (USCA) against the
The payments for unknown items make government spending almost impossible to track, according to the agency. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said on Feb. 17 that a total of $4.7 trillion worth of payments from the Treasury Department are almost impossible to trace because of missing account identification codes. DOGE said the Treasury Department
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is set to meet with city leaders after four of Eric Adams’s deputies quit. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has said she will meet with city leaders on Tuesday while indicating she may remove New York City Mayor Eric Adams from office. Hochul made the announcement Monday night in a