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Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s office has cited more than 100 occasions on which Elon Musk’s companies appear to have benefited during his time as a “special government employee” running the dubiously named Department of Government Efficiency.Warren has been

Confronted with awkward facts, Republicans go to war against numbers they don't like03:29Musk melts down over budget bill; Republicans in turmoil over their own bill07:48Murphy: Don't take elections for granted with Trump in power; new PAC says

On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee held its first judicial nominations hearing of President Donald Trump’s second term. They heard from Trump’s first batch of potential federal judges since he returned to the White House: four nominees

It’s undeniable: The House Republican reconciliation bill would take health coverage away from millions of people to partially pay for trillions in tax cuts, which are skewed to wealthy people and corporations. But the legislation’s backers would

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Prosecutors in Milwaukee brought charges on Tuesday against a local man who tried to frame an immigrant for ostensibly plotting an attack on Donald Trump. As my colleague Steve Benen noted earlier this week, Department of Homeland

On the heels of Elon Musk’s exit from the federal government, Rachel Maddow shared the metaphor she believes best sums up the billionaire’s time in Washington.During Monday’s show, Maddow highlighted one particular agency that was targeted by

June 3, 2025, 4:43 PM EDT / Updated June 3, 2025, 4:44 PM EDTBy Jordan RubinA federal judge on Tuesday sided with a class of transgender plaintiffs against one of President Donald Trump’s executive orders. Granting a preliminary injunction, U.S.

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Donald Trump’s plans for a massive, expensive military parade in Washington, D.C., already seemed absurd when juxtaposed against his administration’s mass firings at federal agencies and his plans to institute deep cuts to federal programs many Americans

Last week, Donald Trump turned his fire on the Federalist Society, a powerful conservative advocacy group, and its co-founder Leonard Leo, a key adviser to Trump on judicial nominations during his first term. In a post on

Elon Musk’s government service has supposedly come to an end, with the billionaire decamping to his company town of Starbase, Texas. Except there he was in the Oval Office on Friday, in a press availability alongside President