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A federal appeals court on Friday lifted an order blocking Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from further cuts at the U.S. Agency for International Development.
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Musk expressed confidence in DOGE’s ability to achieve the $1 trillion savings, reducing total federal spending from approximately $7 trillion to $6 trillion.
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“We want to be careful in the cuts,” Musk told Fox’s Bret Baier.
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WKYT’s Samantha Valentino combed through the cuts listed on the DOGE website to find out how much money Kentucky has lost.
DOGE said the Social Security Administration has been executing a "major cleanup" of records for the past three weeks.
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On "Forbes Newsroom," Allison Shrivastava, Associate Economist with the Indeed Hiring Lab, discussed the impact of DOGE cuts on the workforce, where the U.S. job market currently stands, and where there is actual growth in the labor market that now-unemployed former federal workers might turn.
Oracle, the software behemoth, is reportedly among a group of tech companies whose contracts with the Department of Defense have been cut as a result of the Trump administration’s mass spending and workforce reductions.
As President Trump and Elon Musk slash deeper into federal programs and the work force, G.O.P. lawmakers are leveraging their connections to try to insulate themselves and their voters.