The New York Times interviewed more than 60 people familiar with Mr. Musk’s effort to piece together new details about it.

The layoffs, criticized as “short-sighted,” reportedly include meteorologists who did crucial local forecasts in National Weather Service offices across the country.

Republican leaders on Capitol Hill are struggling with a key question as they stare down a fast-approaching deadline to fund the government: How do they fund federal agencies that President Donald Trump and Elon Musk want to dismantle?

Trump held a meeting with United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the White House during which they discussed Ukraine, tariffs and the relationship between the two countries. The pair later took questions during a joint news conference where they fielded additional questions on peace between Ukraine and Russia among other topics.

Ga., on Republicans' effort to avoid a government shutdown and the Trump administration's plan to fire anyone involved in the Biden administration's botched Afghanistan withdrawal.

An executive order handed down Wednesday by President Donald Trump directs all agencies to have a representative of Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency — a kind of political commissar to monitor efforts overseen by the billionaire to cut the size and scope of government.

Bettors on Polymarket, which became famous for accurately calling the 2024 election, see slim chances DOGE will achieve some of its big goals.

Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy analyzes the hostility toward Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency on "Jesse Watters Primetime."

Proposed constitutional amendment also would eliminate the elected position of lieutenant governor, which currently is vacant

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and other lawmakers called the agency’s assurances against privacy violations “woefully inadequate.”