Senate sends Trump’s DOGE cuts package to House
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A key operative from DOGE initiated plans to potentially kill Direct File, the free tax filing tool developed by the IRS, after offering assurances it would be spared from cuts.
The House is looking at President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency’s spending cuts after Senate Republicans agreed to cancel $9 billion in funding to foreign aid and public broadcasting.
The Singapore-based, Nasdaq-listed nanocap said it would be first company on a major U.S. exchange to make DOGE its core treasury asset.
Over the weekend, visitors at Arches National Park near Moab, Utah, spotted a massive bust of Elon Musk being carted around by a pickup. A sign attached to the figure read “MAKE AMERICA WAIT AGAIN” and “Now With Longer Lines Thanks to DOGE Cuts!”
Maurene Comey, a federal prosecutor in the cases against accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, has been fired. Although a reason for the dismissal was not immediately clear, she is also the daughter of James Comey, who is the former director of the FBI and a critic of President Donald Trump.
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's historic role of assuring safety is changing as the White House shifts some responsibility to the Department of Energy.
The Department of Veterans Affairs claimed credit for canceling contracts that had not been canceled, and tallied savings unrelated to the cost-cutting efforts.
The Senate is moving closer to codifying the cuts to government spending championed by President Trump, Elon Musk and DOGE. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) raised objections to the cuts to public broadcasting in Alaska in an interview with CNN’s Manu Raju.
After significantly cutting America’s humanitarian aid operations earlier this year, the Trump administration now has a surplus of food that it can’t use. What will become of it? The White House has a simple plan: incinerate it.
Senate Republicans are putting the popularity of Department of Government Efficiency spending cuts to the test this week.
Steve Davis, Musk’s former government lieutenant, continued to exert his authority over the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) even after receiving explicit White House orders to stop. Top Trump officials eventually had to step in and shut him down, Politico reported this week.