The Trump Administration Wants USAID on the Blockchain
According to a memo circulating among State Department staff and reviewed by WIRED, the Trump administration plans to rename the ...
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‘We Don’t Want an AI Demo, We Want Answers’: Federal Workers Grill Trump Appointee During All-Hands
“When there are great tools out there, GSA’s job is to procure them, not make mediocre replacements,” a colleague added. ...
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FTC Removes Posts Critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI Companies
The Trump administration’s Federal Trade Commission has removed four years’ worth of business guidance blogs as of Tuesday morning, including ...
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‘It’s a Heist’: Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by DOGE
Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has spent the first six weeks of the new Trump administration turning ...
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Donald Trump Held Another Million-Dollar ‘Candlelight’ Dinner—With Elon Musk in Tow
An invitation to a “candlelight” dinner held this past Saturday at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club asked prospective guests to ...
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Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’
Musk and Trump’s relationship was cemented on July 13, 2024, when a would-be assassin came within inches of killing the ...
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These Are the 10 DOGE Operatives Inside the Social Security Administration
The SSA did not respond to a request from WIRED about what the DOGE operatives are working on inside the ...
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USDS Engineering Director Resigns: ‘This Is Not the Mission I Came to Serve’
The director of data science and engineering for the United States Digital Service—which Elon Musk rebranded as the US DOGE ...
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Not Even DOGE Employees Know Who’s Legally Running DOGE
Before Trump was inaugurated, the USDS administrator was Mina Hsiang. After she left, Ted Carstensen was the highest-ranking legacy USDS ...
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Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Being Sued Under the Privacy Act: What to Know
After months of congressional wrangling that saw the elimination of Ervin’s proposed independent privacy oversight board, President Gerald Ford signed ...
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