Billionaire Elon Musk said on Feb. 18 that he will discuss with President Donald Trump a proposal to send U.S. taxpayers rebate checks representing a portion of the money saved by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Musk is spearheading the Trump administration’s efforts to reshape the federal government and reduce wasteful spending. The DOGE
‘That’s a very good start,’ the Treasury secretary said. The Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) created under the Trump administration has saved about $50 billion so far, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a new interview. “So that’s a very good start,” Bessent told Fox News of the cuts in federal spending,
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Washington — Former GOP Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, President Trump’s nominee to run the Labor Department, is expected to face tough questioning from at least one member of her own party as she appears before the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee for her confirmation hearing Wednesday. Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, who sits
President Trump, speaking Tuesday afternoon from his home in Florida, appeared to shift three years — if not many decades — of U.S. foreign policy almost 180 degrees, issuing remarks that made his administration sound aligned more with Russian President Vladimir Putin than America’s European allies of the last eight decades. In rhetoric similar to
Elon Musk will be kept away from government decisions involving space, President Donald Trump said on Feb. 18. “I will not let there be any conflict of interest,” Trump told reporters at the White House in Washington. He said later: “I told Elon, any conflicts you can’t have anything to do with that. So, anything
Federal funding cuts are impacting migrant children in Chicago Federal funding cuts are impacting migrant children in Chicago 02:32 Legal services groups that offer representation and guidance to thousands of migrant children facing deportation said on Tuesday that they were abruptly directed by the Trump administration to halt their government-funded work. Affected organizations across the