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Elon Musk leaves after meeting with Senate Republicans, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 5, 2025.

Elon Musk tells Republican lawmakers he’s not to blame for federal firings

By Lisa Mascaro, Chris Megerian, and others

Elon Musk speaks during a Cabinet meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. (Pool via AP)

Federal workers start to get a new email demanding their accomplishments

By Chris Megerian, Adriana Gomez Licon, and others

Elon Musk wields a chainsaw

Federal workers sue over Elon Musk’s threat to fire them if they don’t explain their accomplishments

By Lindsay Whitehurst, Chris Megerian, and others

Elon Musk Joins President Trump For Signing Executive Orders In The Oval Office

Are Elon Musk’s sweeping DOGE cuts illegal? For the most part, judges say no

By Lindsay Whitehurst, Chris Megerian, and others

President Trump Signs Executive Order

In Trump’s first term, his orders often went ignored—not this time

By Chris Megerian and The Associated Press

Protesters hold banners during a rally in front of the Office of Personnel Management, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025, in Washington. President Donald Trump is relying on a relatively obscure federal agency to reshape government. The Office of Personnel Management was created in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter and is the equivalent of the government’s human resources department. It helps manage the civil service, including pay schedules, health insurance and pension programs. The agency has offered millions of federal workers eight months of salary if they voluntarily choose to leave their jobs by Feb. 6. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump administration tells government agencies to lay off new workers, potentially cutting hundreds of thousands

By Chris Megerian, Michelle L. Price, and others

People rally against the policies of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Federal judge clears key hurdle for Trump and Musk’s government employee buyout plan

By Lindsay Whitehurst, Chris Megerian, and others

Trump sits in the Oval Office with Jordan's King Abdullah II while patting his hand

Trump insists Palestinians are ‘going to be in love with’ America’s transformation of Gaza into a tourist destination: ‘We’re not going to buy anything. We’re going to have it’

By Zeke Miller, Chris Megerian, and others

A hand-drawn portrait of American teacher Marc Fogel

A 66-year-old teacher served a 14-year prison sentence in Russia for having medically prescribed marijuana. Now he’s coming home to his family

By Chris Megerian, Eric Tucker, and others

People protest during a rally against Elon Musk outside the U.S. Department of Labor in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Judge temporarily blocks Elon Musk plan offering incentives for federal workers to quit

By Chris Megerian, Collin Binkley, and others

People protest during a rally against Elon Musk outside the Treasury Department in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Federal workers ask whether Musk buyout deal is real or a trick as deadline approaches

By Chris Megerian, Collin Binkley, and others

Trump speaks in front of a microphone

Donald Trump talks so much the White House is considering hiring more stenographers to keep up with everything he says

By Chris Megerian and The Associated Press

US President Donald Trump speaks at a press briefing

Trump’s budget office reverses executive order freezing federal grants after it sparked legal challenges across the country

By Chris Megerian, Zeke Miller, and others

People protest against a funding freeze of federal grants and loans following a push from President Donald Trump to pause federal funding near to the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Trump federal funding freeze temporarily blocked by federal judge

By Chris Megerian, Lindsay Whitehurst, and others

FILE – A firefighter hoses down flames as the Palisades Fire approaches in Mandeville Canyon, Jan. 11, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong,File)

Trump heads to visit disaster zones in North Carolina and California in first trip of White House return

By Will Weissert, Chris Megerian, and others