Musk initially promised that he would eliminate $2 trillion of the $7 trillion federal budget, before scaling back his ambitions to $1 trillion, and then $150 billion. Even that revised target is ...

President Donald Trump and adviser Elon Musk celebrated their efforts to slash federal spending before Musk stepped away from his White House work. Musk wore a black DOGE hat over ...

Musk wore a black DOGE hat over a bruised right eye that he blamed on his young son’s punch. That was May 30 in the Oval ...

DOGE is cutting government spending, but overall spending is still up and the deficit has increased. Learn what that means ...

Under Elon Musk, DOGE saved taxpayers $175 billion. But lawsuits and lack of congressional buy-in have limited its impact on ...

The $9 billion rescissions package is a tiny fraction of the amount of cuts DOGE was meant to make. Even that might not make it through Congress.

Democratic congressional leaders, including Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Newport News), on Tuesday morning heard accounts from local ...

Congress is preparing to take up a new rescissions package next week that could slash billions in funding from international ...

The U.S. spends less than 1% of its budget on foreign assistance. Tim Rieser, a senior foreign policy aide in the Senate who ...

Eliminating regulations always has a cost, and slashing science research is particularly problematic since scientific ...

Among those in households with layoffs, 45 percent are seriously considering leaving the D.C. area, according to a Washington Post-Schar School poll.