A broad federal funding freeze announced by the Trump administration last week, and blocked by a pair of judges, is destabilizing a wide range of programs despite the court interventions. Some ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive memo ordering a review of funding to all non-government ...

Trump has bundled two of his long-favored political targets—federal government spending and the media—into one attack while ...

On Monday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused USAID's leadership of "insubordination" and said he was now the agency's ...

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The billionaire and his cronies continue to move fast and break things. Here are their boldest attacks thus far.

Since Trump took office, Elon Musk and DOGE have slashed federal spending. But how many cuts have they actually made?

The $71.9 billion in foreign aid that the government spent in fiscal year 2023 works out to 1.2% of that year’s total federal spending.

It took more than eight years for former Clinton administration adviser Elaine Kamarck to cut approximately 426,000 jobs, 16,000 pages and $136 billion — in 1990s dollars — from the federal government ...

Trump and DOGE head Elon Musk are looking to make widespread cuts to federal agencies in the first month of Trump's ...

President Trump on Friday called for a review of federal funding to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and for a halt on ...

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency wants to cut government spending, but it's also prompting lawsuits and concerns about data privacy.