DOGE Says It’s Saved $55 Billion, Itemized Data Show Far Less
The federal cost-cutting effort dubbed the Department of Government Efficiency says it has saved $55 billion in federal spending so far, but its website only accounts for $16.6 billion of that. And ...
Struggle Over Americans’ Personal Data Plays Out Across the Government
Employees from Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency are gaining access to vast amounts of information ...
Court Declines to Block Federal Government's New "Government-Wide Email System"
From yesterday's decision by Judge Randolph Moss (D.D.C.) in Doe v. Office of Personnel Mgmt.: In late January 2025, the Office of Personnel Management ...
Judge denies request to temporarily block DOGE's mass firings, access to data
A federal judge denied an urgent request to temporarily block Elon Musk and DOGE from firing employees or accessing records ...
Idaho lawmaker says schools are ‘soft target.’ Will the state arm teachers to change that?
Republican lawmaker says armed public school employees could deter attacks. A Democrat decried the proposed “lack of ...
Live updates: Trump to sign executive orders before airing of joint interview with Musk
President Donald Trump is scheduled to sign executive orders Tuesday at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. Later, ...
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Local LGBTQ+ advocates rally to oppose passport freeze
And both nationally and in our region, members of the LGBTQ+ community and their allies are already pushing back. The ...
DOGE sued by taxpayer groups and unions over access to IRS files
The plaintiffs expressed concerns about letting the U.S. DOGE Service, led by Elon Musk, see sensitive information such as ...
US Treasury Faces Backlash As DOGE Claims $4.7 Trillion Payments Untraceable: 'America Has Been Hijacked'
Elon Musk-led DOGE claimed that the U.S. Treasury lost track of $4.7 trillion in payments and transactions due to a tracking ...
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Elon Musk's DOGE allegedly finds $4,700,000,000,000 treasury payments with missing code which makes tracing them 'almost impossible'
The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item (standard financial process). In the Federal Government, the TAS field was optional for ~$4 ...
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My Turn | Is America great again?
"First, I will start by saying that I am a conservative, longtime Republican and believer in the principles that do make ...
DOGE-affiliated employee expected to seek access to IRS system with sensitive taxpayer information
The access would be to the Integrated Data Retrieval System, which allows IRS employees to access taxpayer accounts. An administration official originally said that the employee had been granted ...