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Musk, Ramaswamy huddle with lawmakers in quest to downsize widely-distrusted federal government with DOGE

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Many Americans don’t trust the federal government, and Elon Musk — an eccentric billionaire business tycoon tasked by President-elect Donald Trump with helping slay the unwieldly bureaucratic leviathan — thinks that’s just the right attitude. “I think we should not… Read More »Musk, Ramaswamy huddle with lawmakers in quest to downsize widely-distrusted federal government with DOGE

McConnell criticizes federal judges for reversing retirement decisions as 'open partisanship'

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The Senate GOP leader on Monday slammed decisions by two federal judges to reverse their announced retirements after Republican former President Trump won re-election in November. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., criticized the pair of “partisan Democrat district judges” after… Read More »McConnell criticizes federal judges for reversing retirement decisions as 'open partisanship'

‘We know what is coming’: Federal bureaucrats wrestle with fight-or-flight response to Trump election

Thousands of federal bureaucrats have lived through one Donald Trump administration. Many are not sure they can or will survive a second. POLITICO spoke with more than a dozen civil servants, political appointees under President Joe Biden and recently departed… Read More »‘We know what is coming’: Federal bureaucrats wrestle with fight-or-flight response to Trump election