The new Department of Government Efficiency can't go after Medicare or Social Security. That leaves Medicaid in a vulnerable position.

A Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 61 percent of U.S. adults support the president's plan to downsize the federal government.

Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick wants to follow in the footsteps of Elon Musk. The state’s powerful Republican announced on Wednesday that one of the 40 bills he was prioritizing this legislative session is called “Texas DOGE – Improving Government Efficiency.

Watchdog groups were ready to challenge DOGE from the start under the assumption it would fall under the legal rules governing outside government advisory groups. Indeed, within minutes of Trump’s swearing in,

“What I want people to recognize in the thought of government efficiency and DOGE is that this is not a passing fancy,” Ernst said. “This is not just the latest shiny bright object. It is something that we care about, and there are a number of us that have worked very hard on these issues for the past decade.”

Vivek Ramaswamy, the former co-leader of the Department for Government Efficiency, was asked during an appearance on Fox News if he was fired from the advisory panel by Elon Musk.

CGI Inc., one of Canada’s largest tech-services firm, is on a merger and acquisition spree and says it has enough dry powder for more takeovers.

DOGE officials visited the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s water pumps in Northern California and said they’d worked with the agency to increase water deliveries south, as Trump has been pushing California to do.

The group on X said that it had canceled around $420 million in contracts, putting it on track to reach 3% of Musk's initial cost-cutting target.

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the subcomittee’s chair and a Trump loyalist who has frequently clashed with Garcia, called Trump’s DOGE effort a “mandate from the American people” to “eliminate waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement within federal agencies.

U.S. District Judge John Coughenour found the order "blatantly" violated the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and granted a request by Democrat-led Washington, Arizona, Illinois and Oregon to block it while their legal challenge proceeds.