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Trump insists he trusts Musk in sit-down with Bret Baier — while reaffirming what US
President Trump insists he trusts Elon Musk to overhaul the federal government and expressed awe at the tech titan’s work ethic while reaffirming his next targets — the Education Department and Pentagon.
“I ran on this,”…
Russ Vought, tapped as CFPB’s acting director, directs bureau to issue no new rules, stop
Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought is now also the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where he has directed staff to not issue any new rules, to suspend effective dates of all final rules…
Trump signs order freezing aid to South Africa over ‘racial discrimination’ against
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order cutting US financial assistance to South Africa, accusing its government of “unjust racial discrimination” against white Afrikaners and offering them asylum in the United States.The…
U.S.A.I.D. Workers Brace for the Worst
The thousands of people who work for the U.S. government’s main agency for humanitarian aid and disaster relief have been on the front lines of efforts to fight famine, contain virulent infectious diseases like H.I.V. and Ebola, and…
‘To err is human, to forgive divine’: Elon Musk to rehire employee who resigned after
File photo: Elon Musk (Picture credit: AP) Elon Musk, Tesla owner and billionaire, announced on Friday that he is reinstating Marko Elez, a former department of government efficiency (DOGE) employee who resigned a day earlier following…
But is it legal? Musk’s DOGE is stripping agencies before judges can rule.
As head of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk and his team have spent the first three weeks of President Donald Trump’s new administration turning Washington upside down.DOGE’s goal is to radically…
Elon Musk’s Revolutionary Terror
Nearly twenty years ago, the Washington Post’s Rajiv Chandrasekaran wrote a classic account of the shambolic American takeover of the Iraqi government, “Imperial Life in the Emerald City.” Most memorably, he described what a Times…
Can Elon Musk Rule the World? charts the rise of Trump’s ‘first buddy’ — TV review
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Earlier this week, Elon Musk was officially confirmed as a “special government employee” by the White House — a…