The memo asks agency heads to develop plans for reductions in force and reorganization that include plans to promote efficiency through tech modernization.

Records show a Department of Labor component that enforces equal employment opportunity laws is developing a plan to reduce its workforce by 90 percent.

After Elon Musk demanded that federal workers detail their work accomplishments via email, VA employees who contacted BI strongly opposed the effort.

Stanford Law School professor Mark Lemley says Elon Musk's project violated the Privacy Act when it got into OPM's data.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said more than one million federal workers sent in their list of accomplishments.

The lawsuit, led by the American Federation of Teachers, is one of several seeking to bar federal agencies from sharing sensitive information with the Department of Government Efficiency.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, had some harsh words for the way DOGE was operating, calling the email sent to federal workers “intimidation,” and saying that she’s hearing from federal workers who are being “treated with a level of disregard to their service and to their tenure.”

Operatives working for Elon Musk’s DOGE appear to be editing the code of AutoRIF—software designed by the Defense Department that could assist in mass firings of federal workers, sources tell WIRED.

A federal judge on Monday blocked the government downsizing team created by President Donald Trump and spearheaded by billionaire Elon Musk from accessing sensitive data maintained by the U.S. Education Department and the U.

Elon Musk surveyed his followers on X — the platform he spent $44 billion to buy — asking whether federal employees should be required