Top Treasury officials have complained about disruption. The secretary of state has pushed back on staff cuts. Inside the Education and Health and Human Services departments, political appointees have been informed - not consulted - about canceled grants and contracts,

From the moment the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau opened its doors in the summer of 2011, powerful critics have wanted to rein it in — and the regulator was one of the very first targets of Elon Musk’s scorched-earth overhaul of the US government.

US President Donald Trump said Saturday he would like his billionaire advisor Elon Musk to get "more aggressive" in implementing his reform agenda of cutting back the federal government.

It seems that Elon Musk’s friendship with President Donald Trump and government cost-cutting job has already saved a boatload of money ― for him. Just a month into the second Trump administration, Musk has overseen the slashing of thousands of government jobs through his so-called Department of Government Efficiency.

President Trump has tasked Elon Musk with an enormous job of searching the federal government and rooting out inefficiencies and waste. But Musk’s initial, often chaotic, infiltration of various departments has set off alarm bells.

The Ingraham Angle' panelists Republican pollster Matt Towery and Democratic strategist Mark Penn unpack President Donald Trump's favorability compared to Democrats. Penn said polls show a retrospective assessment of former President Biden,

Democratic governors held a press conference on Tuesday, sounding the alarm on Trump’s threat to Medicaid and signaling a Democratic messaging priority.

Americans see the specific programs targeted by Elon Musk’s bureaucracy-slashing efforts more favorably than DOGE or Musk, according to a recent Economist/YouGov poll. Presidential cost-cutter Elon Musk claims he has a popular mandate to take a hatchet to government in his quest to find $2 trillion in savings.