Does Musk have a shot at cutting $1 trillion from the deficit? Mathematically, yes. As a practical matter, it would be difficult.

Elon Musk is pleading with retired air traffic controllers to return to work—despite his DOGE project to slash the number of federal workers. The billionaire admitted there is a “shortage” of the vital workers in an intervention certain to fuel concerns about air safety after a string of incidents including last month’s D.

Three St. Louis-area federal offices are closing or consolidating space, according to a list published by President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency. DOGE listed the leases on its website as part of its cost-cutting measures toward its goal of chopping the federal government's massive leased office portfolio.

Hundreds of employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were reportedly laid off this week as part of DOGE's federal workforce cuts.

Federal workers who were not let go said the afternoon layoffs included meteorologists who do crucial local forecasts in National Weather Service offices across the country. Cuts at NOAA appeared to be happening in two rounds,