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DOGE Staffer: 'I Was Racist Before It Was Cool'

25-year-old Marko Elez, who gained access to Treasury's payments systems, resigns

(Newser) - A staffer at Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has resigned after racist X posts came to light. Marko Elez, 25, who was reportedly granted administrator-level privileges to read and write code in the Treasury Department's payments systems , resigned Thursday after the Wall Street Journal asked the White...

Musk's Teen DOGE Lieutenant Has Some Iffy Security Issues

'I would probably have recommended against hiring him,' says former FBI agent of Edward Coristine

(Newser) - Wired has previously reported on the small army of young engineers helping Elon Musk in his mission to slash federal spending. The outlet continues the theme with a new story focusing on a 19-year-old member of Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, Edward Coristine. The piece notes that Coristine is...

Want an Easy Way Cut $2T? Think Nuclear
Want an
Easy Way
to Cut $2T?
Think Nuclear
OPINION
Feb 6, 2025 2:36 PM CST

Want an Easy Way to Cut $2T? Think Nuclear

Dan Vergano calls for ending nuclear weapons modernization

(Newser) - Elon Musk has an easy task in cutting $2 trillion from the federal budget in the view of Scientific American opinion editor Dan Vergano. But rather than going after the NOAA or the Labor Department , his Department of Government Efficiency should "recommend ending one of the most misguided, wasteful...

Tesla Sales Plunge in Europe
Tesla Sales
Plunge in Europe
Feb 6, 2025 1:25 PM CST

Tesla Sales Plunge in Europe

After a bad 2024, 2025 starts out much worse—and Musk's politics may be at play

(Newser) - While Elon Musk is busy hacking away at various government programs vis a vis DOGE, Europe, it seems, is busy hacking away at his Tesla sales. As the New York Times reports, after a rough 2024, the automaker stared down even more losses in January—and notably in countries in...

Musk's DOGE Gains Access to Medicare System

'This is where the big money fraud is happening,' he says of work at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

(Newser) - Elon Musk's access to the operations of the federal government appears to be only accelerating. On the heels of his Department of Government Efficiency gaining access —though it may be only "read-only" access —to a sensitive Treasury Department payment system:
  • Medicare/Medicaid: Representatives from DOGE have gotten
...

White House Is Canceling Politico Subscriptions

It all comes back to a conspiracy theory

(Newser) - A right-wing conspiracy theory that started spreading Wednesday claims that USAID, the federal agency in the crosshairs of Elon Musk and his DOGE staffers , has for years funneled millions of dollars to Politico and the AP. At a press conference that day, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt mentioned the...

Protests Across US Decry Trump&#39;s Actions
Nationwide Rallies
Denounce Trump, Musk
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Feb 5, 2025 7:30 PM CST

Nationwide Rallies Denounce Trump, Musk

In Washington, a 70-year-old says he'll take the fall if there's retribution

(Newser) - Demonstrators gathered in cities across the nation on Wednesday to protest the Trump administration's early actions, denouncing policies including the immigration crackdown, rollback of transgender rights, and a proposal to forcibly transfer Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. Protesters in Philadelphia and at state capitols in California, Minnesota, Michigan, Texas,...

Dems: DOGE Security Failures Could 'Break Our Government'

Federal workers sue over OPM's use of unencrypted email

(Newser) - Federal employees are attempting to block Elon Musk's DOGE associates from operating what they say is an illegal server at the Office of Personnel Management. Janes Does 1 and 2 allege the server, connected to a government network to harvest information on federal employees, violates federal law and could...

DOGE Turns to NOAA, Another Project 2025 Target

As Trump picks a figure from 'Sharpiegate' to lead the agency

(Newser) - President Trump has nominated Neil Jacobs to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, turning to the man who was his acting NOAA chief in 2019 when Trump altered an expected hurricane impact map in what became known as the "Sharpiegate" scandal , the AP reports. After Alabama meteorologists had...

Treasury Says Musk Aides Have 'Read Only' Access

Integrity of federal payments system has not been compromised, officials insist

(Newser) - In response to the furor over Elon Musk and his DOGE team being granted access to a sensitive system used by the Treasury Department to make federal payments, the department said Tuesday that Musk's aides were given "read-only" access similar to what an auditor would receive. CNN reports...

Democrats Are Blocked From USAID Office

Lawmakers address protesters outside, demanding Trump and Musk stop attacks on agency

(Newser) - Congressional Democrats who went to USAID's headquarters in Washington on Monday to oppose efforts to shut the agency down —as Elon Musk said he and President Trump will do—were denied entry. The group then addressed other protesters, saying Trump's actions are illegal and harmful to national...

Elon Musk Named as 'Special Government Employee'

Trump says billionaire won't always get his way

(Newser) - Elon Musk is rapidly consolidating control over large swaths of the federal government with President Trump's blessing, sidelining career officials, gaining access to sensitive databases , and dismantling a leading source of humanitarian assistance, the AP reports. Musk has been named as a special government employee, which subjects him to...

Rubio: I'm Now the Acting Director of USAID

Democrats say Congress needs to approve any attempt to fold agency into State Department

(Newser) - Hours after Elon Musk boasted about throwing USAID "into the wood chipper" over the weekend. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he was in charge of the foreign aid agency. Rubio, speaking to reporters in El Salvador, said he is now the acting administrator of USAID but he has...

Warren to Treasury Chief: You Blew It on Elon Musk

Senator criticizes decision to grant him access to federal payments system

(Newser) - Days after the new Treasury secretary gave Elon Musk access to a sensitive federal payments system , Sen. Elizabeth Warren has a question: What you were thinking, Scott Bessent?
  • "I am alarmed that as one of your first acts as secretary, you appear to have handed over a highly sensitive
...

Ontario Leader: See Ya, Starlink Contract

Doug Ford says he's 'ripping up' $69M deal with Musk company amid Trump tariffs against Canada

(Newser) - In November, the Progressive Conservative leader of Canada's most populous province announced a $69 million contract with Elon Musk's Starlink, in an effort to bring high-speed internet to thousands of homes and businesses in some of the more far-flung parts of Ontario. That contract is no more, according...

New Target of Trump Anger: South Africa
New Target of Trump
Anger: South Africa
the rundown
Feb 3, 2025 9:51 AM CST

New Target of Trump Anger: South Africa

President says land is being confiscated from farmers, which the government denies

(Newser) - Add South Africa to the list of nations in President Trump's dog house. On Sunday, Trump threatened to cut off all aid to the nation after claiming it was confiscating land from farmers, which the South African government says is a distortion of the truth. Another wrinkle in the...

One of Musk's Key DC Lieutenants Is a Teenager

Wired : Young engineers with little government experience are dismantling agencies

(Newser) - Elon Musk continues to take what Axios describes as a "wrecking ball" to the federal bureaucracy, with the US Agency for International Development now on the chopping block . In recent days, Musk and his team at the Department of Government Efficiency also gained access to a sensitive system that...

USAID Security Chiefs Who Refused Musk Are on Leave
Elon Musk:
Time for
USAID 'to Die'
UPDATED
Feb 3, 2025 12:30 AM CST

Elon Musk: Time for USAID 'to Die'

He says Trump has agreed to 'shut it down'

(Newser) - Elon Musk says it's time for USAID, the federal agency that oversees foreign aid to civilians, "to die." Musk's post on X came soon after reports that two of the agency's top security chiefs are on leave after allegedly refusing access to classified material to...

Bessent Gives Musk Access to Payroll System

Top Treasury official, since ousted, had blocked the move

(Newser) - After the ouster of a top Treasury Department official who had resisted the move, Elon Musk and his team have received full access to a sensitive government system that handles trillions of dollars in federal payments. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent granted the unprecedented access late Friday, the New York Times...

Musk Talks to Boeing About Hurrying Air Force One Models

Trump 'wants the airplane sooner,' CEO says

(Newser) - President Trump ordered the next generation of presidential planes during his first term, spent four years out of office, and returned to find the two modified 747s not yet delivered by Boeing. In addition to being years behind schedule, the project is more than $2 billion over budget, CNBC reports....

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