- Desmond Butler, Trisha Thadani, Emmanuel Martinez, Aaron Gregg, Luis Melgar, Jonathan O'Connell and Dan Keating @ The Washington Post: Elon Musk’s business empire is built on $38 billion in government funding
Elon Musk and his cost-cutting U.S. DOGE Service team have been on a mission to trim government largesse. Yet Musk is one of the greatest beneficiaries of the taxpayers’ coffers.
- Michael Luciano @ Mediaite: Marjorie Taylor Greene Declares, ‘Federal Employees Do Not Deserve Their Paychecks’
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) trashed federal workers on Tuesday, stating that none of them “deserve” paychecks.
- Leigh Kimmins @ The Daily Beast: Trump Threatens to Sue the Media Over Stories He Doesn’t Like
The president suggest that he would continue his press crackdown in a fiery Truth Social post aimed at dissenting outlets and authors.
- Melanie Zanona, Jonathan Allen and Matt Dixon @ NBC News: House Republicans hit the brakes on town halls after blowback over Trump's cuts
A number of Republican lawmakers faced significant pushback in their home districts over Trump and Elon Musk's slashing of the federal government.
- Andrew Prokop @ Vox: The man trying to turn prosecutors loose against Trump’s enemies
Ed Martin went from a little-known conservative activist to US Attorney for DC — all because of Stop the Steal.
