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Ramaswamy Avoids DOGE in Launch of Ohio Run

Tech entrepreneur is running for governor

(Newser) - Vivek Ramaswamy has formally launched his bid to become the next governor of Ohio, reports CNN . And the Cincinnati native quickly earned two big endorsements in the 2026 race—that of President Trump and Elon Musk, reports the Hill .
  • Trump: "I know him well, competed against him, and he
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Atop El Capitan, a 'Signal of Dire Distress'

Frustrated staffers at Yosemite hang upside-down American flag to protest Trump workforce cuts

(Newser) - An upside-down American flag is meant as "a signal of dire distress" —and that's exactly what visitors found at California's Yosemite National Park over the weekend. It seems staffers upset about the Trump administration taking a hatchet to the federal workforce draped a giant flag from...

AI to Determine Federal Workers' Fates

Elon Musk suggests employees could still be fired for not responding to email with 5 bullet points

(Newser) - DOGE will use artificial intelligence to analyze the email responses from some of the estimated 2.3 million federal employees asked to justify their jobs . The responses will be fed into a large language model, an advanced AI system that can process huge amounts of text data, which will then...

Canadian Petition Seeks to Yank Musk's Citizenship

More than 215K people have signed it

(Newser) - Elon Musk was born in South Africa, resides in the US, and is a Canadian citizen thanks to his mother, who hails from Saskatchewan. But a number of his fellow Canucks apparently want to boot him from their ranks. More than 215,000 people have signed a parliamentary petition that...

Prank Video Mocks Trump, Musk at HUD Headquarters

Somebody apparently hacked the federal building's monitors

(Newser) - It looks like someone in the federal government took some revenge on Elon Musk and President Trump by hacking TV monitors at HUD headquarters in DC and running a bogus video of the two of them, reports the Hill . The fake video depicted Trump kissing the toes of Musk's...

Trump Calls Musk's Order to Employees 'Ingenious'

But some federal departments tell staffers not to comply

(Newser) - Elon Musk's emailed ultimatum that federal workers justify their jobs in five bullet points in a return email by midnight Monday was "ingenious," President Trump said Monday. He endorsed Musk's threat, saying, "If you don't answer, you're sort of semi-fired or you're...

Judge Rules Against DOGE Access to Personal Data

Ruling temporarily prohibits 2 federal agencies from sharing info

(Newser) - Elon Musk's aggressive cost-cutting in the federal government ran into two more legal challenges on Monday:
  • A federal judge temporarily barred the Department of Government Efficiency from gaining access to sensitive employee information held by the Office of Personnel Management and the Education Department, reports Reuters . OPM is essentially
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Trump's Response to Mass Firings: SpongeBob

President tweets meme mocking federal workers upset with DOGE-driven layoffs

(Newser) - Federal workers are still trying to make sense of an email request seemingly sent on behalf of Elon Musk's DOGE over the weekend that asked them to send five bullet points of what they'd accomplished during the previous week (followed by conflicting guidance from multiple agency heads to...

Trump's Appointees Put Musk's Power to the Test

Patel, Gabbard among agency leaders telling employees not to justify their roles to Musk

(Newser) - Multiple government agencies run by Trump-appointed leaders have told employees not to respond to an email from Elon Musk , demanding they provide five bullet points explaining the work they got done over the past week. "Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation," Musk wrote Saturday on...

Musk Orders Federal Workers to Detail Their Workweek
Musk to Federal Workers:
'What Did You Do Last Week?'
the rundown
Feb 23, 2025 7:35 AM CST

Musk to Federal Workers: 'What Did You Do Last Week?'

Employees who fail to respond to email by midnight Monday may be out of work

(Newser) - Elon Musk has given federal workers another deadline —this time, they have to justify their jobs in an email or risk losing them.
  • First threat: Musk tweeted Saturday afternoon that employees would soon receive an email "requesting to understand what they got done last week." He added:
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Musk's Public Accounting of Savings Doesn't Add Up

Contracts are counted more than once, others listed already are paid out and over

(Newser) - Elon Musk's cost-cutting team posted a " wall of receipts " online this week, purportedly showing how much the Department of Government Efficiency has saved taxpayers. Reducing the federal workforce and canceling leases and contracts has cut $55 billion in spending, the group says, though you can't tell...

Musk's Private Security Detail Has Been Deputized

Billionaire's guards might be able to carry weapons now

(Newser) - The US Marshals Service has deputized members of Elon Musk's security detail—an unusual move that affords the private force some of the rights that usually apply only to federal law enforcement agents. The billionaire doesn't have Secret Service protection, and he's received death threats in the...

Musk Wields Literal 'Chainsaw for Bureaucracy'

A gift from Argentine President Javier Melei to symbolize his DOGE cuts

(Newser) - "This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy. Chainsaw!" Elon Musk gleefully shouted Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference, where he raised a sparkly chainsaw for the crowd. The tool was used to represent Musk's efforts to slash the government workforce and programs through DOGE. Marked with a...

Grimes to Elon Musk: Our Kid in Danger of 'Lifelong Impairment'

She says Musk is not responding to her about child's 'medical crisis'

(Newser) - Grimes is once again using Elon Musk's own social media platform to call him out regarding one of their children. In a series of since-deleted posts on X, Grimes posted Thursday, "I'm not giving any details but he won't respond to texts call or emails and...

Trump: We May Give Americans 20% of DOGE Savings

President offered few details on the possibility

(Newser) - Could Americans see some cash from all these DOGE cost-saving measures? President Trump says he's considering the idea, the Wall Street Journal reports. "We're thinking about giving 20% back to the American citizens and 20% down to pay back debt," he said at a Saudi Arabia-sponsored...

Poll Shows Trump Approval Slipped 2 Points in First Month
Trump Slips in Poll, Musk Lags
Feb 19, 2025 7:45 PM CST

Trump Slips in Poll, Musk Lags

President is down from first week in office, while DOGE boss is less popular

(Newser) - President Trump's approval rating has slipped since his first week in office, down 2 percentage points to 45%, a Gallup poll released Wednesday found. At this point, 51% of respondents disapprove of his job performance. Trump's approval rating is running 15 points below the mid-February average of all...

Deportees in Shackles Are White House's 'ASMR'

Footage shared by Trump White House viewed as dehumanizing 'boast'

(Newser) - The White House X account on Tuesday shared a video showing undocumented immigrants in handcuffs, shackles, and chains preparing to fly out of Seattle's Boeing Field on Feb. 4 with the caption, "ASMR: Illegal Alien Deportation Flight," per the Seattle Times . ASMR, meaning autonomous sensory meridian response,...

Judge Says She Won't Block Musk, DOGE Immediately

But she says states' concerns about 'unchecked authority' are legitimate

(Newser) - A federal judge refused Tuesday to immediately block Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing government data systems or participating in worker layoffs. US District Judge Tanya Chutkan found that there are legitimate questions about Musk's authority, but said there isn't evidence of the kind...

White House: Musk Does Not Run DOGE
White House: Musk
Does Not Run DOGE
Feb 18, 2025 11:14 AM CST

White House: Musk Does Not Run DOGE

Court filing in response to lawsuit says he's not the administrator of the new office

(Newser) - Quick, name the leader of the new Department of Government Efficiency. If you answered, "Elon Musk," you're at least technically incorrect. The White House on Monday night explicitly stated in a court filing that Musk isn't the administrator of DOGE, reports the New York Times . Nor...

Elon Musk: I'm 'Looking for the Gold at Fort Knox'

DOGE may try to get access to the highly secretive government locale

(Newser) - DOGE is making inroads at the Treasury , the Social Security administration , the IRS , and a slew of other government entities—but can it get into Fort Knox? Elon Musk said Monday the famous gold repository is on his radar, reports the Hill . "Looking for the gold at Fort Knox,...

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