Tesla CEO, SpaceX founder and the richest billionaire in the world Elon Musk is now a U.S. government employee. What to know ...

David A. Lebryk had a volatile end to his 36 years serving the public at the Treasury Department last week. On Monday, he was ...

President Donald Trump's policies and Elon Musk's association with his administration are causing trouble for the tech CEO's ...

Top Democrats on Capitol Hill are leveraging all the tools at their disposal as they rail against Elon Musk’s efforts to gut ...

Now that Elon Musk has been classified as a "special government employee," he will get greater access to U.S. government ...

Former CNN anchor Jim Acosta questioned why billionaire Elon Musk should be handed power to fire federal employees or granted ...

The SGE designation, which has come under scrutiny under Democrats as well, exempts short-term federal employees from certain ...

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Gov. Kevin Stitt has issued an executive order creating the Division of Government Efficiency, or DOGE-OK, within Oklahoma ...

And it means Donald Trump's top ally is "subject to most rules, although sometimes in a less restrictive way.” ...

But this morning, Ed Martin, the interim U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., released a letter he wrote to Musk declaring ...