After he applied to his 599th job, John Burg stopped counting. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Burg was laid off as a contractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development in January 2025 after a decadeslong career that took him to Thailand, Kosovo and El Salvador. He […]
Elon Musk, (c) Reuters The richest man on the planet just skillfully mixed two concepts. And without putting any specific meaning into his post, nevertheless “rocked” the rate of cryptocurrency Dogecoin in the direction of sharp growth. “Only the fraud was stopped by DOGE and, even then, only some of the fraud,” Musk wrote on […]
Table of Contents Table of Contents Ask Anything Top Questions What was the Department of Government Efficiency? The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was a U.S. federal department that sought to modernize federal technology and maximize governmental efficiency. It was created on January 20, 2025, by an executive order from U.S. Pres. Donald Trump. The […]
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. NERMEEN SHAIKH: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Nermeen Shaikh in New York, with Amy Goodman in Los Angeles. We spend the rest of the hour looking at the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID. Founded in 1961, […]
“Wow, there really is so much that USAID does that we never knew!” That was what U.S. Agency for International Development Deputy Administrator Kenneth Jackson told me on Feb. 5, 2025. I had just briefed the Trump administration’s new political leadership on global health programs that saved millions of lives worldwide and protected Americans from […]
Utah has “been downwind before,” a staffer joked during a Department of Energy discussion about radiation exposure. (Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Valar Atomics plans to start up a small nuclear reactor in Utah this summer. On Feb. 15, 2026, three USAF C-17s flew some of its components to Hill Air Force Base […]
T4urox IO (T4UX) Decentralized Hedge Fund Elon Musk confirmed that the DOGE government efficiency department will shut down by July 4, removing the most visible public figure associated with the Dogecoin brand from his quasi-official platform. DOGE is trading near $0.12, retesting support after the $9.87 million short squeeze on April 8 failed to produce […]
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Even after prolonged chaos, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency didn’t end up saving taxpayers much money. It did, however, manage to devastate global health infrastructure on its way out. For evidence, look no further than Bangladesh, currently […]
Newly disclosed internal emails from the U.S. Marshals Service are raising fresh concerns about how federal law enforcement authority was extended to members of Elon Musk’s private security detail during his time inside the Trump administration. The documents, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by the watchdog group Democracy Forward, show that senior […]
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt strongly condemned the dishonest mainstream media for promoting Iranian regime propaganda and falsely asserting that President Donald Trump had accepted Tehran’s absurd 10-point “wish list” as a legitimate deal. Steven Cheung, Assistant to the President and White House Communications Director, criticized a media outlet for spreading the fake news regarding President […]
