June 2025

Inside Elon Musk and Russ Vought’s Quiet Alliance

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Russ Vought: Key Project 2025 Figure Set to Continue Trump Cuts After Musk Exit

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DOGE Layoffs Are Starting to Leave Their Mark on D.C.’s Housing Market

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Key Member of Musk’s DOGE Moves to Social Security

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DOGE Now Has Approval Authority for Defense IT, Consulting Contracts

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DOGE Holds Meetings With White House, New Postal Leadership and Treasury to Discuss Reforming USPS

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Musk’s DOGE Expanding His Grok AI in US Government, Raising Conflict Concerns

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Doge Employee ‘Big Balls’ Has Resigned, Says White House Official

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OPM ‘merit’ Hiring Plan Includes Bipartisan Reforms, Politicized New Test

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Elon Musk May Be Gone but DOGE Isn't Done Remaking the Federal Government

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Wait, Who Gets a DOGE Stimulus Check? and Is DOGE Even Still Active?

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Now That Elon Musk Has Left DOGE, Will Taxpayers Still Get Dividend Checks? What to Know

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Why Elon Musk Failed

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How Will We Know if DOGE Is Succeeding?

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Lawmakers Spar Over DOGE as Republicans Look to Lock in Cuts

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Is DOGE Doomed to Fail? Some Experts Are Ready to Call It.

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Supreme Court Hands DOGE Big Wins in Social Security, Records Cases

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DOGE Loses Control Over Government Grants Website, Freeing up Billions

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DOGE Has Tried to Embed Beyond the Executive Branch. Some Targets Have Pushed Back

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Elon Musk Is Leaving the Federal Government. What's Next for DOGE?

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Supreme Court Grants DOGE Access to Confidential Social Security Records

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DOGE’s Next Chore

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Why Did DOGE Fail?

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Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Feeding Sensitive Federal Data Into AI to Target Cuts

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Judge Grants CREW Discovery in DOGE FOIA Suit

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AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS Et Al V. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Et Al, Docket No. 1:25-cv-00339 (D.D.C. Feb 05, 2025), Court Docket

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Union Group Sues to Block DOGE Labor Department Data Access

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DOGE Software Approval Alarms Labor Department Employees

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How Is DOGE Abusing Its Power?

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Elon Musk Denies 'hostile Takeover' of Government in Surprise White House Appearance

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What Is Doge and Why Has Musk Left?

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Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired by Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets

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Elon Musk and the Useless Spending-Cut Theater of DOGE

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DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million.

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Struggling With Errors, DOGE Deletes Billions More From List of Savings

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DOGE Will Use AI to Assess the Responses of Federal Workers Who Were Told to Justify Their Jobs via Email

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DOGE Is Working on Software That Automates the Firing of Government Workers

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The Agents Behind DOGE’s Attacks

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In Chaotic Washington Blitz, Elon Musk’s Ultimate Goal Becomes Clear

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Musk's Deep Financial Ties to Top Feds Revealed

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IMPLEMENTING THE PRESIDENT’S “DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY” COST EFFICIENCY INITIATIVE

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ENSURING LAWFUL GOVERNANCE AND IMPLEMENTING THE PRESIDENT’S “DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY” DEREGULATORY INITIATIVE

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Implementing the President’s “Department of Government Efficiency” Workforce Optimization Initiative

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ESTABLISHING AND IMPLEMENTING THE PRESIDENT’S “DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY”

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What’s Wrong With DOGE? Its Structure, for One

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DOGE Insider EXPOSES MUSK’S SECRETS…Before HE QUITS

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DOGE Is Building a ‘master Database’ of Sensitive Information, Top Oversight Democrat Says

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Letter From Gerald Connolly, Ranking Member Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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Civic Tech Leaders Worry DOGE Is ‘tarnishing’ Its Tools to Improve Government

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DOGE Is Building a Master Database for Immigration Enforcement, Sources Say

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IRS Makes Direct File Software Open Source After Trump Tried to Kill It

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IRS Direct File Sees Higher Scores Among Users, Despite a Push to Shutter It

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The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced

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A Government Program Made Tax Filing Free and More Efficient. Musk and DOGE May Get Rid of It Anyway

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Did DOGE Really ‘delete’ the Tech Division That Helped Create the IRS Direct File Free Tax Filing Service?

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Trump Administration Scrambles to Rehire Key Federal Workers After DOGE Firings

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‘It Is a Wrecking Ball’: Former DOGE Worker Describes Musk-led Government-slashing Effort From the Inside

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Former DOGE Insider Describes 'wrecking Ball' Approach

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DOGE Days

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Thanks to DOGE, Gumroad’s Founder Has a Second Job With the VA

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DOGE Staffer TELLS ALL: WTF Was Going On?

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Republicans Worry DOGE Cuts Will Sink Them in Virginia Governor's Race

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SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION, ET AL. V. AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE, COUNTY, AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES, ET AL. ON APPLICATION FOR STAY

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DOGE Given Access to Americans' Social Security Data by Supreme Court

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Philadelphia Tutoring Program Focused on Student Literacy Cut by DOGE

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“DOGE” Access to Treasury Payment Systems Raises Serious Risks

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Inside DOGE’s AI Push at the Department of Veterans Affairs

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Elon Musk Leaves Legacy of Self-destruction at DOGE

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Government Contractors Are Lining up to Work With DOGE

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Elon Musk on DOGE

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Exclusive: as Social Security Services Are Cut Back, Millions of Seniors Face Long Drives

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Social Security Cuts Phone Services in Bid to Address Fraud

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Social Security Backs off Cuts to Phone Services Amid Outcry

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DOGE Went Looking for Phone Fraud at SSA — and Found Almost None

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DOGE Efforts Face Pushback at Social Security

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Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Keep DOGE Records Secret

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Musk and Ramaswamy Meet With GOP Lawmakers About DOGE Plans

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Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy: the DOGE Plan to Reform Government

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'DOGE' Meets Congress: GOP Lawmaker Launches Caucus

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The People Carrying Out Musk’s Plans at DOGE

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Elon Musk’s Fake Retreat From DOGE

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Who Is the DOGE and X Technician Branden Spikes?

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DOGE Has an Official Government Website

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Former DOGE Engineer Says Federal Waste and Fraud Were 'relatively Nonexistent'

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‘Big Balls’ No Longer Works for the US Government

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