‘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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Tesla Got a Permit to Operate a Taxi Service in California—but There’s a Catch
Tesla has been granted a permit to operate a taxi service in California, a spokesperson for the California Public Utilities ...
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CFPB workers are reinstated after a court order, but many still can’t work
Terminated employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) have been brought back to work in response to a judge’s ...
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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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No, 150-Year-Olds Aren’t Collecting Social Security Benefits
Elon Musk has repeatedly claimed that his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project had uncovered massive government fraud when ...
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