Watchdog Effort to Obtain DOGE Records Can Proceed, Appeals Court Rules

Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency must resume efforts to hand over internal documents about their operations to a nonpartisan watchdog group, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. The order, issued by a three-judge panel in Washington, directs Mr. Musk’s team to answer questions and provide details the group requested under federal transparency […]

Is The Senate Stablecoin Bill Dead? Dems Demand Treasury Info On Trump Citing Crypto “Bribery” Risks

Update (1405ET): CoinDesk’s Margau Nijkerk reports that Top House Democrats sent a letter to the U.S. Treasury Department Wednesday, asking its money laundering watchdog to hand over all suspicious activity reports (SARs) tied to President Donald Trump’s crypto ventures. In a letter sent to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Reps. Gerald Connolly (D-Va.), Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.) […]

Why Elon Musk Is Right: The Case Against Subsidizing Amtrak

Authored by J.D.Wong via The Mises Institute, Founded 54 years ago, Amtrak set out on a bold adventure to see if passenger trains could be profitable.  Fast forward to today, this experiment has been unsuccessful. Politicians have often crafted routes to win votes rather than attract riders.  As a result, Amtrak has been squandering taxpayer money […]

Elon Musk’s Boring Company Is in Talks With Government Over Amtrak Project

The Federal Railroad Administration, the nation’s railroad agency, has brought in the Boring Company, the tunneling firm founded by Elon Musk, to help with a multibillion-dollar Amtrak project, according to three people familiar with the discussions. Federal Railroad Administration officials have talked with employees at the Boring Company about assessing the costs and progress of […]

What did we learn from DOGE?

This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch critique the apparent wind down of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative, highlighting its lack of transparency and failure to achieve meaningful spending cuts. They also analyze the GOP’s new tax plan, which contradicts promises of fiscal responsibility by significantly increasing the deficit. Finally, […]

Creator of the controversial Project 2025 creator to take over DOGE from Elon Musk

President Trump’s top budget official, Russell Vought, has been tapped to take over the newly-formed Department of Government Efficiency, where the Project 2025 architect will continue slashing the federal government. Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, was present for the Trump administration’s first cabinet meeting in late February The Trump administration […]

Afrikaners refugees status due to arrive in U.S. on Monday : NPR

Afrikaan South Africans supporting US President Donald Trump and South African and US tech billionaire Elon Musk gather in front of the US Embassy in Pretoria, on February 15, 2025 for a demonstration. Marco Longari/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Marco Longari/AFP via Getty Images JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The U.S. government has […]