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Judge slams Social Security chief for agency shutdown ‘threats’ after ruling barring DOGE access
A sign for the U.S. Social Security Administration is seen outside its headquarters in Woodlawn, Md., on Thursday, March 20, 2025. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images A federal judge reprimanded Social Security Administration acting commissioner Lee Dudek on Friday for “making threats about shutting down operations” at the agency. Judge Ellen […]
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Trump’s Social Security chief backs down from ‘shutting down’ agency
A sign in front of the entrance of the Security Administration’s main campus on March 19, 2025 in Woodlawn, Maryland. Kayla Bartkowski | Getty Images The head of the U.S. Social Security Administration has backed down from “shutting down the agency” after a federal judge rebuked him for misinterpreting a court ruling that limited billionaire […]
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SEC to see exodus as hundreds take Trump’s buyout offers: Reuters
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S. on March 5, 2025. Leslie Josephs | CNBC Wall Street’s top regulator is facing a staff exodus across key departments as hundreds have agreed to take resignation offers amid President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s efforts to remake the U.S. government, five people […]
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Elon Musk tells Tesla employees ‘hang onto your stock,’ urges vandals to ‘stop being psycho’
Tesla CEO Elon Musk watches as President Donald Trump talks to the media, outside the White House in Washington, D.C., March 11, 2025. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters During Elon Musk’s two months in Washington, D.C., Tesla shares have been on a precipitous decline, losing over 40% of their value. Protests and campaigns against Tesla, Musk […]
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Musk group offers $100 to Wisconsin voters ahead of pivotal state Supreme Court election
People vote at a polling station in Allenton, Wisconsin, on Election Day, November 5, 2024. Alex Wroblewski | AFP | Getty Images A group funded by billionaire Elon Musk is offering Wisconsin voters $100 to sign a petition in opposition to “activist judges,” a move that comes two weeks before the state’s Supreme Court election […]
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Accenture is DOGE’s first corporate casualty as shares dive on warning that contracts will be cut
Accenture signage is pictured in Warsaw, Poland, on Aug. 7, 2024. leksander Kalka | Nurphoto | Getty Images Shares of Accenture slid Thursday after the consulting firm said efforts to tighten federal spending have begun to weigh on its revenues. Shares tumbled 7.3% after Accenture’s chief executive officer said in a fiscal second-quarter earnings call […]
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X sues Modi’s government over content removal in new India censorship fight
Elon Musk’s account on X is displayed on a smartphone. Nathan Stirk | Getty Images News | Getty Images India’s IT ministry has unlawfully expanded censorship powers to allow the easier removal of online content and empowered “countless” government officials to execute such orders, Elon Musk’s X has alleged in a new lawsuit against New Delhi. The lawsuit and the allegations mark an escalation in an […]
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Pentagon to brief Musk on top-secret plan for potential war with China, NYT reports
President Donald Trump and Elon Musk (R) speak before departing the White House on his way to his South Florida home in Mar-a-Lago in Florida on March 14, 2025. Roberto Schmidt | Afp | Getty Images Billionaire Elon Musk, U.S. President Donald Trump’s close ally, is due to be briefed on Friday by the Pentagon on the U.S. military’s plan for any war that might […]
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Elon Musk received court summons in SEC suit over failure to properly disclose Twitter stake
Tesla CEO Elon Musk looks on as US President Donald Trump speaks to the press as they stand next to a Tesla vehicle on the South Portico of the White House on March 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images Elon Musk received a court summons last week in connection […]
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Tesla owners are trading in their EVs at record levels, Edmunds says
A Tesla store in Alhambra, California on March 11, 2025. Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images As Elon Musk wraps up his second month in the White House, Tesla owners are trading in their electric vehicles at record levels, according to an analysis by national car shopping site Edmunds. The data from Edmunds published […]
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