Trump gave Musk a White House key to mark the end of his tenure. The Tesla CEO and world’s richest person suggested he would be an informal counselor to Trump.

But until that moment, he'd been saying that he still intended to work on DOGE part-time. "Well, DOGE is gonna continue, just as a way of life," he told us.

In that sense, the black eye Musk sported Friday could be seen as a metaphor for the political beating he’s taken since Jan. 20. He fell far short of finding a trillion dollars in DOGE cuts ...

Elon Musk gestures to a black eye he said he got from his 5-year-old son, speaking at a press event with President Trump at the White House on May 30, 2025. / Credit: ALLISON ROBBERT/AFP via Getty ...

Musk had set a goal for DOGE to cut $1 trillion from the federal government by the next fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1, to root out what he called "waste, fraud and abuse." He had even talked ...

DOGE Instructions and a White House Deadline: How the Government Canceled Harvard’s Grants | News | The Harvard CrimsonIn a later email, Simonpour said the five grants had been identified after ...

Elon Musk showed up in the Oval Office with a black eye he got from playing with his son. But his reputation and his companies have sustained the worse damage.

One of the U.S. DOGE Service's best-known employees, 19-year-old Edward Coristine, has resigned from the U.S. government, a White House official said Tuesday, a month after the acrimonious ...

The drama offers a case study in how Elon Musk’s team sought to run a critical government agency through misinformation and social media blasts — and how longtime employees responded.

Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday signaled that House Republicans are “eager and ready” to formalize the White House’s so-called DOGE cuts as soon as President Donald Trump’s team makes ...

DOGE's push to cut some federal surveys conducted by the Census Bureau may be duplicating a White House agency's oversight work and weaken U.S. data infrastructure, experts warn.