23 hours ago · Members of Elon Musk's government efficiency team are poised to arrive at the Defense Department in the coming days. Officials tell NPR that DOGE has a target of cutting 8% from next year's budget.

2 days ago · The group’s funding grew from $750,000 to $6.75 million and then $14.4 million in less than two weeks.

Feb 7, 2025 · Indeed, Musk and DOGE have set their initial sights instead on USAID, a relatively obscure agency that provides critical funding for programs abroad and whose budget accounts for approximately 1% ...

Dec 28, 2024 · As the co-heads of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are promising to slash at least $2 trillion from the federal...

Dec 7, 2024 · Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy test drove their new Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, on Capitol Hill this week, visiting House and Senate Republicans, who celebrated their promise...

Dec 19, 2024 · Elon Musk’s role in taking down a bipartisan budget deal shows his ascendance as a political force. The social media warnings from the world’s wealthiest man preceded President-elect Donald Trump’s condemnation of the measure negotiated by GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson.

Nov 27, 2024 · Members of Congress — even Democratic ones — have been offering up ideas for where to cut what Mr. Musk said could be $2 trillion out of the budget. “It’s going to be very easy,” Elon Musk’s...

Nov 17, 2024 · Mr Musk has talked of ripping $2trn from the federal budget, an amount that, if done in a year, would exceed the government’s entire discretionary spending. His focus on deregulation, job cuts ...

Dec 5, 2024 · Elon Musk met with lawmakers Thursday to stoke congressional enthusiasm for his ambitious effort to slash at least $2 trillion from the federal budget, a level of austerity unprecedented in...

Dec 19, 2024 · Elon Musk, a key ally to President-elect Donald J. Trump whom he has designated to oversee cuts to government spending, helped torpedo a bipartisan spending deal after relentlessly criticizing...