Congress is proving little match for the Department of Government Efficiency as wary lawmakers watch it march through the ...

On Friday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reportedly granted aides of Elon Musk access to the department’s payments system, ...

Elon Musk may be the most divisive man in Washington — and in President Trump’s White House. In one camp stand Trump allies ...

President Donald Trump’s administration this week launched one of its most brazen challenges yet to Congress’s authority.

Dozens of senior officials put on leave. Thousands of contractors laid off. A freeze put on billions of dollars in ...

Elon gets a flavor of the pushback his DOGE project will get.

President Donald Trump and his billionaire adviser Elon Musk have launched a full-frontal assault on the United States Agency ...

Outraged Democrats are testing the limits of their diminished power as they try to stop the stunning power grabs of President ...

“What Trump and Musk have done is not only wrong, it’s illegal,” Representative Don Beyer of Virginia said during a news ...

Welcome to 538's politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited.

There is no cavalry coming. Elected officials, governors, civil servants and people sitting at home are the only ones who can ...

The president said Musk won’t have the unfettered ability to dismantle the government, but for now their relationship is ...