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  1. politics
    White House Finally Reveals Who Is (Kind of) Running DOGEThe White House claimed that a former adviser in the U.S. Digital Service, not Elon Musk, is actually in charge.
    By Nia Prater
  2. the purge
    All the Firing, Layoffs and Resignations We Know OfOver 30,000 have been let go or put on leave but information on which departments have been impacted is only trickling out. Here’s what we know.
    By Will Peischel
  3. what we know
    Elon Musk.
    Musk Doubles Down on Mass Email Threat to Federal WorkersAfter OPM said workers weren’t required to respond, Musk said they’ll get another chance to reply or be fired.
    By Chas Danner
  4. early and often
    Trump Didn’t Campaign on Decimating the Federal GovernmentIt’s a Project 2025 plan chaotically implemented by Elon Musk, which most voters couldn’t possibly have expected, let alone supported.
    By Ed Kilgore
  5. early and often
    Angry Voters Keep Confronting Republicans Back HomeSeveral GOP lawmakers have faced crowds upset over the Trump administration’s massive cuts.
    By Nia Prater
  6. the purge
    ‘Big Balls’ on Top of the WorldHow Eddie Coristine, 19, came to join Elon Musk’s revolution terrorizing the federal government.
    By Pilar Meléndez and William Bredderman
  7. early and often
    Speaker Mike Johnson
    A Week of Republican Congressional Chaos Ends in Low ComedyAn all-night Senate debate on a budget resolution that may go nowhere was typical of a very bad week for Congress.
    By Ed Kilgore
  8. early and often
    Stimulus Checks With President Trump's Name Sent Out To Americans
    A DOGE Dividend Is a Bad Idea. Trump May Cut Checks Anyway.It’s probably illegal and definitely irresponsible, but Musk’s idea of rebating DOGE savings to taxpayers could be very seductive to Trump.
    By Ed Kilgore
  9. doge fail compilation
    Elon Musk’s DOGE Keeps Accidentally Firing Very Important PeopleLike the government experts responsible for stopping the spread of bird flu and keeping America’s nuclear stockpile safe.
    By Matt Stieb
  10. early and often
    Elon Musk and GOP Pretend No One Is Responsible for DOGE ChaosRepublicans in Congress have no control over DOGE, and now the White House denies Elon Musk is running it. Convenient!
    By Ed Kilgore
  11. politics
    The Internal Revenue Service Headquarters In Washington, DC
    Trump and Musk’s Government Purge Is Intensifying: UpdatesScores of federal workers are getting axed, endangering many government services, and Trump has now literally declared himself above the law.
    By Intelligencer Staff
  12. early and often
    Trump To Order Federal Job Cuts As Part Of Musk's Downsizing
    DOGE Is About Ideology and Mindless Budget Cutting, Not EfficiencyFor all the whiz-bang rhetoric, DOGE reflects an ancient right-wing belief that even good government is wasteful and its beneficiaries are parasites.
    By Ed Kilgore
  13. exes
    Grimes Is Not Happy Elon Musk Brought Their Son to the White HouseThe singer, who’s criticized Elon Musk for parading around X Æ A-12, wrote that he “should not be in public like this” after another hang with Trump.
    By Emily Leibert
  14. what we know
    An organizational flag flies outside of the Office of Personnel Management in Washington, D.C. on February 7.
    What Federal Agencies Has DOGE Gotten Into?From the NOAA to OPM to the Pentagon, here’s an updated look at where Elon Musk’s DOGE is already operating and what they’re doing.
    By Chas Danner
  15. early and often
    Republicans Let Trump and Musk Roll Right Over ThemTrump’s party is bending the knee to his most radical steps, but there are some signs of rebellion to watch for.
    By Ed Kilgore
  16. what we know
    What Elon Musk and DOGE Are Doing to the Federal GovernmentThe billionaire and his cronies continue to move fast and break things. Here are their boldest attacks thus far.
    By Chris Stanton
  17. early and often
    Russ Vought pressing a button.
    Russell Vought Is the Glue Between Elon Musk and RepublicansThe newly confirmed co-author of Project 2025 is a quiet radical with enormous power, who can help keep DOGE and Congress in sync and in line.
    By Ed Kilgore
  18. early and often
    The Week ‘Democrats Must Work With Trump’ DiedThe new administration is running roughshod over Congress, breaking laws wantonly, and empowering Elon Musk. Democrats have had enough.
    By Ed Kilgore
  19. just asking questions
    Brian Schatz on How Democrats Can ‘Start Kicking Ass Again’The Hawaii senator says his party should embrace a new kind of resistance and stop listening to pundits.
    By Benjamin Hart
  20. early and often
    GOP Governors Cheer As Trump Prepares to Cut Their BudgetsState Republicans are rebranding their efficiency exercises as just like Musk’s DOGE. It won’t seem cool when the cuts come down from Washington.
    By Ed Kilgore
  21. early and often
    Elon Musk
    Elon Musk May Have Your Social Security NumberThe billionaire and his DOGE agents were granted full access to the Treasury’s federal payments system, and nobody knows to what end.
    By Chas Danner
  22. foreign interests
    People demonstrate in support of workers at the U.S. Agency for International Development in Washington, on Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times)
    Inside Elon Musk’s Killing of USAIDSaboteurs, tears, and a last-minute push to save lives.
    By Jonathan Guyer
  23. early and often
    Democrats May Shut Down Government to Keep Trump From Gutting ItRepublicans need Democratic votes to keep the government open. This is leverage Democrats could use to rein in Trump and Musk’s power grab.
    By Ed Kilgore
  24. just asking questions
    ‘We’ve Got an Enormous Crisis on Our Hands’Public-policy expert Don Kettl discusses Trump and Musk’s blitzkrieg attack on the federal workforce and where it goes next.
    By Benjamin Hart
  25. early and often
    Office of Personnel Management
    Federal-Worker Buyouts May Make Government As Broken As XMusk tried a similar scheme after his takeover of Twitter. What could go wrong with applying it to millions of federal workers?
    By Ed Kilgore
  26. early and often
    Will Musk-Dominated DOGE Go Big or Small?With Ramaswamy gone, Musk’s DOGE will be inside the White House. The size of its ambitions for remaking the federal government are unclear.
    By Ed Kilgore
  27. free country
    MAGA Misfits vs. Nationalists vs. Reaganites vs. DorksThe battle of the Trump transition.
    By Sam Adler-Bell
  28. early and often
    Don’t Worry: MTG Will Supervise Elon Musk and Vivek RamaswamyTheir pretend DOGE agency will get some pretend oversight in Congress.
    By Ed Kilgore
  29. trump 2.0
    Who’s Applying to Work for DOGE?Here’s your competition if you want to work at Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s promised Department of Government Efficiency.
    By Matt Stieb
  30. enough already
    Wow, HHS Is Using Doge to Flog Obamacare, Such OverSuch good riddance.
    By Adam Martin
  31. cryptocurrency
    Shibes Decline to Discuss Net Worth at Dogecoin PartySo amaze. Wow.
    By Jen Kirby