Once seen as a bold innovator and cultural icon, Elon Musk is now facing a reality familiar to many political figures: widespread public disapproval. According to the latest data from newsletter Silver Bulletin—a polling analysis project by 538 founder Nate Silver—53.5 percent of Americans now view Musk, the world’s richest man, unfavorably, while only 39.6…
The Social Security Administration backed off its plan to cut phone services, but it’s still taking steps to limit the ways that people will be able to access information about the essential agency. The SSA plans to stop issuing communications through normal channels like press releases and will instead make statements exclusively on X. According…
The National Institutes of Health is bucking DOGE in a move that could mark a sign of Elon Musk’s fading influence in Washington. An email sent to NIH staff Thursday instructed employees to ignore the Department of Government Efficiency’s efforts to measure worker productivity and limit travel and purchases on company cards, Politico reported. The…
Billionaire CEO Elon Musk confessed to the Cabinet Monday that his cost-cutting scheme has fallen enormously short of the $1 trillion savings he had promised the American people, Reuters reported Thursday. The embarrassing admission proved that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) saved only $150 billion, or 85 percent less than its original goal. Musk…
Notes from a March 18 meeting, marked “Internal/Confidential,” show that a DOL lawyer presented colleagues with an overview of DOL’s interactions with DOGE. “So far,” the notes read, “they do not have write access. They have asked; we’ve held them at bay. We’ve tried to get them to tell us what they want & then…
In a national protest dubbed “Hands Off,” demonstrators from New York to Alaska poured into city streets on Saturday, April 5, to send a direct message to President Donald Trump and the nation’s unelected leader, aspiring restaurateur and alleged deadbeat dad Elon Musk. Given Trump’s plummeting approval ratings and Musk’s, well, whole anti-charismatic deal (to…
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Protesters attend a “Hands Off” rally to demonstrate against President Donald Trump on the National Mall, April 5, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Hundreds of thousands took to the streets in cities across the United States in opposition to the policies of Mr. Trump, in the largest protests since he returned to the…
Ever since Donald Trump’s billionaire aide Elon Musk took over the leading role at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), thousands of federal workers have lost their jobs as part of the cost-cutting effort of the new administration. According to some new reports, federal agencies have now been asked to justify their spending on private…
The Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to the federal bureaucracy have included slashing a little-known government agency that channels grant money to America’s libraries — a potentially crippling interruption to a funding lifeline for libraries around the country. One staff member at the Institute of Museum and Library Services sent grant coordinators a chilling email, obtained…
In the clearest sign that his most powerful adviser Elon Musk will be wrapping up his work inside the government, US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Musk would likely leave his administration in a “few months”, an AP report said. Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that “Elon is fantastic” but he…