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The Social Security Administration has blocked employees from reading news, shopping, and browsing sports sites during working hours.

DOGE chief Elon Musk recently signalled at a conference that the USPS and the passenger rail service Amtrak should be privatised to resolve their long-standing financial challenges.

Entitlements are a much bigger expense, but that doesn't mean the waste doesn't matter.

All-staff email is latest Trump-led assault on agency that runs safety-net program for 73 million Americans

The Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has secured unprecedented access to at least seven sensitive federal databases, including those of the Internal Revenue Service and Social Security Administration. This access has sparked fears about cybersecurity vulnerabilities and privacy violations. Another concern has received far less attention: the potential use…

Social security is a highly efficient safety net. But the president’s crypto plans and job cuts leave Americans holding the bag

“Crawling through the data of the Social Security”: Musk makes the case for a Privacy Bill of Rights

When Grandma's Social Security check goes missing, Trump and Musk plan to call her a "fraud"

The Goldman Sachs alum did not endorse all the new administration’s policies.

All devolved benefits will be increased by 1.7 in April, Social Justice Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville will tell MSPs

If Elon Musk fired every single federal worker his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) would only save a quarter of the money he promised to save and would amount to a piddling 4 percent of annual federal spending, according to a new report.