The new Trump administration has made reducing the size of the federal government one of its top priorities. One month in, it has sought to eliminate departments and agencies and shrink the federal ...

Ethics laws make it a federal criminal offense to take actions that benefit family businesses — even for so-called special government employees, unless a waiver is issued. By Eric Lipton The ...

WASHINGTON — Elon Musk is joining the federal government after all. President Donald Trump previously tapped Musk to lead his Department of Government Efficiency, but the tech billionaire ...

President Trump said Wednesday that the federal government should “take over the governance” of Washington, D.C. “I think that we should govern the District of Columbia,” Trump told ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has confirmed that Elon Musk — the tech billionaire whom President Donald Trump tapped to lead a large-scale effort to cut government spending and ...

By Ethan Singer More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday afternoon, a New York Times analysis has found, as federal agencies ...

Billionaire Elon Musk is categorized as a "special government employee" through his work with the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, a cost-cutting initiative created by President Trump ...

Several government websites have been taken down, including the USAID.gov, ForeignAssistance.gov, NeglectedDiseases.gov, and ChildrenInAdversity.gov. A WIRED analysis of more than 1,000 federal ...

The tech billionaire owns Tesla, Space X and X — and now the White House says he is a "special government employee." In the short time President Trump has been back in the White House ...

Americans don’t know the full extent of what Elon Musk is doing as he embeds alongside President Donald Trump at the top of the federal government. What we know is that he’s the world’s ...

“This sounds like another method of censorship and control of the federal career workforce,” one former government tech executive said of a Tuesday memo issued by the Office of Personnel Managemen ...

Elon Musk is officially serving under President Donald Trump as a special government employee, according to a White House official. That designation means Musk – the billionaire tech ...