Members of the U.S. DOGE Service spoke regularly over Signal, the encrypted chat service that can auto-delete messages. They were informally recruited by people they knew. And other government ...

In the span of 77 minutes on a late-March Monday in 2025, an associate of the government-slashing Department of Government Efficiency sent Michael McDonald, the acting head of the National Endowment ...

Inexperienced employees at Elon Musk's DOGE used ChatGPT to cut anything they deemed as "DEI" from government spending. Credit: Samuel Corum/Getty Images Thanks to a lawsuit against DOGE, we are now ...

Congress’ watchdog reported on Tuesday that the Treasury Department gave a Department of Government Efficiency associate access to the government’s payment systems last year without fully following ...

Billionaire Elon Musk concedes that if he could do it again, he would not run the Department of Government Efficiency. Speaking to Katie Miller, a former advisor to Musk when he was running DOGE, Musk ...

Meryl Kornfield and Elizabeth Dwoskin can be reached securely on Signal at @merylkornfield.59 and @lizza_dwoskin.42 The Social Security Administration’s internal watchdog is investigating a complaint ...