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Tag: DOGE
Inside the Trump-Musk split: How America’s most powerful bromance imploded into the biggest breakup of 2025
President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s relationship soured in 2025 when Musk criticized Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, leading to a political breakup that played out on social media.
The iciest moments of 2025: The 5 political feuds that froze Washington
President Donald Trump’s second term sparked major political controversies in 2025, from the longest government shutdown in history to mass deportation operations.
Pentagon taps Musk’s xAI to boost sensitive government workflows, support military operations
Pentagon partners with Elon Musk’s xAI to deploy Grok AI across military systems, giving 3 million personnel advanced AI tools by 2026 for sensitive tasks.
Sanders blasted after blocking bipartisan kids’ cancer research bill: ‘Grinch,’ ‘selfish’
Kids’ cancer drug research was torpedoed for a second time in as many years after Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., blocked the bill during a tense floor exchange in the Senate.
Former Brown University student and friend to Ella Cook blames ‘spending priorities’ for lack of security
Brown University allegedly failed to prevent a campus murder due to outdated security systems, says former student who exposed administrative waste.
Elon Musk celebrates 9% cut in federal workers: ‘matrix was reprogrammed’
DOGE helped slash the federal workforce from 3.015 million in January to 2.744 million employees in November though overall federal spending has not gone down.
Rubio unloads on ‘alarmists,’ touts State Dept disaster response after USAID closure
Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended USAID closure, citing Hurricane Melissa response in Jamaica as proof critics were wrong about disaster aid.
New report reveals federal spending per person has ballooned by nearly 10,000% since 1916
A new report shows that federal spending has ballooned for more than a century, raising questions about whether Americans are getting meaningful value for the ever-expanding price tag.
Elon Musk reveals he wouldn’t do DOGE again — doubts that effort to chainsaw government was successful
“I mean, no, I don’t think so. I think instead of doing DOGE, I would have basically … worked on my companies, essentially.”