Elon Musk employed zero-based budgeting after he bought Twitter. Now Donald Trump seems to be using it on the federal government.

There are several reasons Musk wants to control Treasury payments. None of them are good. An unelected and unaccountable billionaire wants to dictate what working families can and cannot afford.

The Tesla leader is a big-picture visionary, while the OMB pick is an in-the-weeds technocrat.

Amazon is boosting its advertising spend on X, a year after many brands sought to leave after Elon Musk took ownership of the ...

Trump’s Efficiency Drive Targets Bureaucratic Waste** In a bold maneuver signaling a new era of government accountability, President Trump’s newly esta ...

If President Trump is looking for a federal agency to abolish, he needs to look no further than the misnamed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This agency ...

DOGE director Elon Musk has shut out senior government workers and seized control of key workflows in the Office of Personnel ...

A top Treasury career staffer, David A. Lebryk, announced his retirement. Surrogates of Musk’s DOGE effort had sought access ...

Surrogates for billionaire Elon Musk have demanded access to the systems that the U.S. Department of the Treasury uses to distribute Social Security and Medicare benefits, as well as federal employees ...

Nearly two-thirds say they back the idea of a Trump-style 'Department of Government Efficiency' to cut billions of pounds of spending on bureaucracy and 'non-jobs' such as diversity officers.

Two dozen federal agencies reported a collective $1 billion in savings from the elimination of DEIA/DEI offices and roles within their bureaucracies.

A few weeks before Donald Trump was sworn in as president, members of his transition team went to the Treasury Department to ...