DeSantis creates Florida DOGE task force
Taking a page from billionaire Elon Musk's push to cut federal spending, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday announced a new panel that will review about 900 state positions.
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Taking a page from billionaire Elon Musk's push to cut federal spending, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday announced a new panel that will review about 900 state positions.
An email requires federal employees to detail five specific tasks completed in the previous week.
Some federal agencies, including the State and Defense Departments, told their employees not to respond to an email asking for a list of tasks they completed.
Federal employees have until midnight Monday to explain their recent accomplishments or risk getting fired.
Republican lawmakers have faced backlash at town halls and other events in their districts in recent days.
The employees who will be affected — in a single division of the IRS — are expected to be notified Thursday that they've been fired.
President Trump said his administration is considering dividend checks based on savings found by DOGE. Economists are skeptical.
The initial accounting by DOGE of its estimated savings was overstated by billions of dollars, a review by CBS News found.
USDA said it's trying to rescind the firings this weekend of several employees who had worked on the bird flu.
The White House said in a legal filing that Tesla CEO Elon Musk isn't an employee of its Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.
The layoffs are part of a broader effort led by Elon Musk's DOGE to shrink the federal workforce.
The Trump administration is firing thousands of federal workers on probationary status, or those without civil service protections.
Elon Musk called for the government to "delete entire agencies" at home and "mind its own business" abroad in a speech via video link to the World Governments Summit in Dubai.
New York Attorney General Letitia James said "this level of access for unauthorized individuals is unlawful, unprecedented, and unacceptable."
Trump in a statement said the two will work to "dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies."
Billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will head an effort, dubbed DOGE, to reduce wasteful federal spending. Here's what it's about.
