Musk, Trump and Doge
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WASHINGTON—President Trump is threatening to withhold his endorsement from any Republican senators who oppose the White House’s $9.4 billion package of DOGE cuts, turning a planned vote next week into an explicit loyalty test and setting up a showdown between the Senate and the White House.
President Trump is heading to Texas to assess the damage caused by the recent flooding. DOGE has access to a database that controls government payments to farmers and ranchers.
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Cryptopolitan on MSNEight more DOGE staffers join Musk in leaving the agency after tenure expiryEight senior staff members from DOGE, the internal Trump-era department tasked with cutting down federal waste, have officially left their posts to continue working in alignment with Elon Musk, according to Politico.
The elite federal task force DOGE, created to overhaul the US government under Elon Musk, is losing influence as key officials and engineers depart following Musk's exit from day-to-day operations. Despite these departures,
Federal employees in Maryland anxiously await the Supreme Court’s decision on whether the Trump administration will be allowed to proceed with firing thousands of federal government workers.
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Irish Star on MSNDOGE gripped by 'infighting and paranoia' as staffers asked to choose between Musk and TrumpEmployees at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are being asked to choose sides: President Trump or Elon Musk? Billionaire Elon Musk departed from his role as head of DOGE in May, before he and President Trump started feuding online.
A top U.S. State Department official waived nine mandatory counterterrorism and anti-fraud safeguards to rush a $30 million award last month to a Gaza aid group backed by the Trump administration and Israel,
“We might have to put DOGE on Elon,” Trump added. “You know what DOGE is? DOGE is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon. Wouldn’t that be terrible? He gets a lot of subsidies. Elon’s very upset that the EV mandate is going to be terminated.”
India is trying to shield itself from President Donald Trump’s backlash against BRICS by stressing it has no plans to challenge the US dollar’s global dominance, according to people familiar with the matter.