When President Donald Trump took office in January, he began offering plenty of signs that his goals for U.S. spaceflight aligned closely with those of billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk. Now those ...

Government spending isn’t secret. Since 2007, USASpending.gov has tracked all contracts, grants and awards worth more than $25,000 that each government agency gives out. The Department of Government ...

Elon Musk and his team of budget cutters have claimed credit for billions of dollars in canceled government contracts. But their initiative, the Department of Government Efficiency, has so far barely ...

President Donald Trump won a nonconsecutive second term promising to cut government waste to the bone. He formalized the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) as a governmental organization in an ...

Take a quick look at the Department of Government Efficiency’s list of canceled contracts and you’d think the Agriculture Department spent $25 million on diversity trainings four separate times, while ...

NASA is the single largest customer of Musk's company SpaceX. As billionaire businessman Elon Musk has been leading an unprecedented effort to slash government spending, his own companies have, over ...

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Snopes readers also messaged us asking about a variant of this claim, saying they heard Musk was making $8 million a day for his job running the Department of Government Efficiency. The "$8 million ...

In an ongoing effort to highlight what he says is waste, fraud and abuse, President Donald Trump recently reeled off a list of government funded initiatives: $19 million for biodiversity in Nepal; $10 ...