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President Donald Trump is expected to follow through on campaign promises to abolish the U.S. Department of Education by ...

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During the presidential election campaign, Donald Trump alleged that the federal education department has ‘too much’ spending ...

Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-1st District, said her efforts by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk to cut spending and federal ...

Marko Elez, a 25-year-old engineer linked to Elon Musk, is now rewriting the code for key Treasury Department payment systems ...

The Trump administration has begun drafting an executive order that would kick off the process of eliminating the Department ...

The White House expects the number of federal employees who accept the buyout offer to grow rapidly in the leadup to Thursday ...

A screenshot authentically shows that Elon Musk posted the following on his social media platform X: "Anyone protesting the Trump Administration will be suspended from X. All anti-Trump drama can go ...

"The billionaire's campaign to radically upend federal agencies is stunning former White House officials, even in a political moment when many things are described as unprecedented." ...

Elon Musk is rapidly consolidating control over large swaths of the federal government with President Donald Trump ‘s blessing, sidelining career officials, gaining access to sensitive da ...

The White House has released a list of USAID programs its considers wasteful and that it says abused taxpayer funds by backing programs that supported DEI initiatives.