Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elon Musk became the face of the Department of Government Efficiency.Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images A government watchdog audited DOGE ...

Trump and Musk claimed that DOGE would cut government waste, but its whirlwind approach resulted in what one Brookings researcher called “cut [ting] muscle, not fat.” The researcher found “25,747 ...

I must quibble with William Galston’s inclusion of tax cuts as part of the nation’s economic problem (“A U.S. National Debt Crisis Is Coming,” Politics & Ideas, Sept. 18). For the past 50 years, ...

The savings claimed by the erstwhile Department of Government Efficiency don't add up, a government watchdog said Thursday. In a new report, the Government Accountability Office, an independent ...