BY REBECCA BEITSCH AND BRETT SAMUELS |
Elon Musk has seen a flood of attempts to check his power as he expands into nearly every corner of the government.
In the few short weeks that President Trump has been in office, Musk and his team at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have accessed or attempted to access databases at a number of departments; gutted the workforce of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID); and helped spearhead a government-wide employee buyout program.
And he doesn't plan to stop — Musk has signaled on social media his team will look into the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for potential spending waste. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said DOGE staffers were going to "plug in to help upgrade our aviation system." |
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The future of the government's foreign assistance agency hangs in the balance after a federal judge said he would temporarily pause the Trump administration's plan to place 2,200 employees on leave Friday night.
Unions representing federal employees took the fight to save the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to the courts after Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) took a sledgehammer to the agency, which the billionaire tech executive called a "ball of worms" that must "die." |
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President Trump's tariffs in China are in place and hitting all products imported from the country — including a number of pharmaceutical drugs that Americans rely upon.
Chinese imports account for a significant proportion of U.S. prescriptions and over the counter drugs. Many of the Chinese-produced drugs are generics, which account for 91 percent of prescriptions dispensed in the U.S.
"The Chinese market is a key supplier for key starting materials and [Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API)] to the generic supply chain," said John Murphy, president and CEO of the Association for Accessible Medicines (AAM). |
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President Trump said Friday he would end the terms of multiple members of the Kennedy Center board and make himself chair of a new board, putting himself at the helm of the Washington, D.C., cultural institution.
"I have decided to immediately terminate multiple individuals from the Board of Trustees, including the Chairman, who do not share our Vision for a Golden Age in Arts and Culture. We will soon announce a new Board, with an amazing Chairman, DONALD J. TRUMP!" the president said on Truth Social. |
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President Trump said he will be revoking former President Biden's security clearance and stopping the former commander-in-chief's daily intelligence briefings.
"There is no need for Joe Biden to continue receiving access to classified information. Therefore, we are immediately revoking Joe Biden's Security Clearances, and stopping his daily Intelligence Briefings," Trump announced in a Friday Truth Social post. |
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BY ELLA LEE AND TAYLOR GIORNO |
A federal judge said Friday he intends to temporarily block the Trump administration's plan to place thousands of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) employees on leave at midnight. Unions representing government employees sued to stop the shutdown of agency operations and restart the flow of foreign aid frozen by President Trump, who has accused the agency of fraud and corruption to justify its imminent shuttering. |
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BY ELLA LEE AND ZACH SCHONFELD |
A coalition of 19 Democratic-led states sued the Trump administration Friday night over the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)'s access to Treasury Department payment systems that dole out trillions of dollars in payments annually.
The lawsuit, led by New York Attorney General Letitia James and announced earlier in the week, is the latest legal resistance against billionaire Elon Musk's sweeping moves to reshape and dismantle parts of the federal bureaucracy. |
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President Trump signed an executive order Friday to establish a White House Faith Office in an effort to empower faith-based entities.
The office will be part of the Domestic Policy Council and headed by a senior adviser tasked with consulting with various faith and community leaders in an effort to defend religious liberty and combat antisemitism, anti-Christianity and other anti-religious bias, according to the order. |
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A federal judge Friday evening refused to block the Labor Department from giving Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access to confidential systems or firing employees for refusing to hand over the credentials. U.S. District Judge John Bates found the plaintiffs hadn't show enough injury to have legal standing to bring the lawsuit. |
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BY MATTHEW MITCHELL AND ADAM THIERER |
OPINION | President Trump has made deregulation a priority and charged Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency with suggesting ways to cut red tape. Some progressives are cautiously supportive of deregulation. More should be.
From Jimmy Carter to Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), progressives once saw the wisdom of cutting red tape — especially if that tape tied the hands of consumers and would-be competitors in order to privilege industry insiders. |
OPINION | Last week, during his confirmation hearings for secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tried to present himself as a moderate voice on abortion. He claimed to have had a "change of heart" on the issue, expressing newfound reservations about late-term procedures and suggesting he would consider policies that "reflect the values of all Americans." |
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For decades, sub-Saharan Africa was a singular focus of American foreign aid. The continent received over $8 billion a year, money that was used to feed starving children, supply lifesaving drugs and provide wartime humanitarian assistance. In a few short weeks, President Trump and the South African-born billionaire Elon Musk have burned much of that work to the ground, vowing to completely gut the U.S. Agency for International Aid. |
BY CARRIE KELLER-LYNN AND SUMMER SAID |
Hamas released three more hostages on Saturday under a three-week-old cease-fire deal that has become a test of wills between the militant group and Israel. The group freed Or Levy, 34, who was taken from the Nova music festival 16 months ago, and Ohad Ben Ami, 56, and Eli Sharabi, 52, who were kidnapped from their homes in Kibbutz Be'eri near the Gaza border. Israel is to reciprocate by releasing 183 Palestinian prisoners later in the day. |
The Army was one of 28 government agencies authorized to fly helicopters near Ronald Reagan National Airport before its Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines passenger jet last week, killing 67. That constant helicopter traffic near such a busy airport is one of many aspects now under review by investigators. As the wreckage of both aircraft are recovered, authorities are also looking at why the helicopter may have been flying above a 200-foot flight restriction. |
BY LIZ GOODWIN AND HANNAH KNOWLES |
Constituents have flooded the phone lines at the U.S. Capitol this week, many of them asking questions about billionaire Elon Musk "feeding USAID into the wood chipper" and his access to government systems. Senators' phone systems have been overloaded, lawmakers said, with some voters unable to get through to leave a message. The outpouring of complaints and confusion has put pressure on lawmakers to find out more about Musk's project, heightening tensions between the billionaire tech mogul and the government. |
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