The Latest Breaking News from DOGE

More than 200 demonstrations take place from Australia to Switzerland; senior FDA official resigns citing RFK Jr’s ‘misinformation and lies’ – key US politics stories from 29 March 2025

Amid rising concerns about how DOGE cuts to Social Security will impact Americans, Representative Don Beyer (D-VA) attempted to place a call himself.

“We will have cases that get stuck, and they’re not going to be able to get fixed.”

President Trump boasted his administration is "breaking all modern Presidential Staffing Records," even as DOGE slashes federal jobs at historic levels.

A week of back-to-back housing data revealed a tiny boost in sales and modest improvement where home prices and mortgage rates are concerned. But don’t be fooled, housing is still unaffordable for many.

The grant, contract and budget cuts in federal agencies, along with the crippling reductions of tens of thousands of government jobs, will “in all probability” end up increasing (by a lot), rather than decreasing the nation’s deficit, which has been the stated intent, notes a new report.

Nigel Farage said he wanted to create a British form of Doge, a US cost-cutting programme led by Elon Musk.

Despite the cuts, the proposed savings by firing federal workers barely puts a dent in the $1.8 trillion Trump and Musk want to save

A federal appeals court has lifted an order blocking Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from further cuts at the U.S. Agency for International Development