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A veteran Social Security Administration official resigned after a dispute with Elon Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) attempts to access the personal data of Social Security recipients. Acting Social Security Commissioner Michelle King stepped down from her post this weekend after refusing to provide representatives from …

Donald Trump and Elon Musk fired hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration workers Friday night, amid a startling series of plane crashes and other air-related incidents in recent weeks. A few days later, the Trump administration is telling Americans not to worry, because they didn’t fire anyone too important. Musk posted …

Last week, 14 state attorneys general filed an audacious lawsuit seeking to have Elon Musk’s activities with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency declared unconstitutional and reverse them as null and void, because, they assert, the billionaire should have been confirmed by the Senate, and because DOGE is acting far …

Elon Musk and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are operating unconstitutionally, and their actions must be reversed. That’s the striking claim made in a lawsuit filed by 14 state attorneys general on Feb. 13 in federal court. The lawsuit runs 60 pages, detailing the chaos Musk and his DOGE …

Every regime’s enforcement mechanisms rely on threats and politicized intimidation. In the case of Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s ongoing power grab, it’s involved young staffers with Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) barging into different federal agencies, departments, and institutes, demanding that security officials and other senior staff …

Picture this. You risk everything for your country. Leave friends and family behind. Go overseas. Watch your friends die or have their lives changed forever. You come home. Adjusting isn’t easy. The nightmares keep you up. That old military injury never really heals. You work full-time, go to school, scrape …

Donald Trump’s new executive order, titled “Implementing the President’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Workforce Optimization Initiative,” outlines exactly how Trump and Elon Musk plan to dismantle the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and strip transitioning military veterans and their families overseas of the generous federal hiring incentives they …

Donald Trump and Elon Musk have spent the past three weeks systematically dismantling the federal government. They’ve done so under the guise of cutting waste and rooting out fraud, but the exercise has played out more like a mind-blowingly reckless publicity stunt rather than anything concerned with actually making the …

In an Oval Office press conference today, President Trump touted the supposed cost-cutting efforts of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by his oligarch megadonor Elon Musk. He also ominously warned that specific judges who rule against efforts by DOGE to gut federal agencies and freeze their funds …

The Trump and Musk administration is continuing its vandalism of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — the federal agency that has returned more than $20 billion to Americans who have been scammed and cheated by financial firms, ranging from payday lenders to big banks. On Tuesday night, the administration began …