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  1. early and often
    Will DOGE Even Save More Than It Costs?The massive inefficiencies and litigation costs imposed by DOGE outweigh any budget savings. The idea is to seize power, not save money.
    By Ed Kilgore
  2. early and often
    DOGE May Not Need Elon Musk AnymoreMusk’s minions are embedded, along with Trump political appointees, in the “deep state.” Vought will be their new and less turbulent leader.
    By Ed Kilgore
  3. early and often
    Will the Courts Save Trump From His Worst Excesses?Many Republicans privately hope the Supreme Court will stop Trump’s destructive trade war. But that may force them to step up and do their jobs.
    By Ed Kilgore
  4. what it’s like
    What It’s Like to Be a Vaccine Researcher in RFK Jr.’s America“My biggest concern is that a lot of people, mostly children, are going to die.”
    As told to Rachel Nuwer
  5. early and often
    DOGE Tells HHS Not to Pay Its BillsThe health agency’s legally required payments are being disrupted in a show of DOGE’s enduring power.
    By Ed Kilgore
  6. early and often
    Grim Reaper Finally Arrives for AmeriCorpsNever fulfilling its potential and suffering from Republican hostility, the Clinton signature national-service program was a sitting duck for DOGE.
    By Ed Kilgore
  7. early and often
    Team Trump’s Addiction to OverkillOn every front, the administration is overreaching in both its actions and its apocalyptic rhetoric.
    By Ed Kilgore
  8. early and often
    MAGA’s Class Warfare Against Knowledge Workers Is PersonalTrump and Musk want to destroy, not simply vanquish, a whole class of Americans considered incorrigible obstacles to American Greatness.
    By Ed Kilgore
  9. early and often
    DOGE’s Methods May Be Chaotic, But They’re Also IneffectiveA new report shows that DOGE’s assault on federal employees and contracts isn’t reducing federal spending at all.
    By Ed Kilgore
  10. early and often
    Trump’s Plan for Laid-Off Federal Workers: Get a Factory JobScott Bessent explains how tariffs and DOGE layoffs will work together to create a manlier workforce filling real jobs.
    By Ed Kilgore
  11. early and often
    Musk-Bashing Is the Answer to Keeping Democrats UnitedThe Wisconsin supreme court results showed that populists and those worried about fascism can both benefit from a focus on the DOGE edgelord.
    By Ed Kilgore
  12. early and often
    Elon Musk Holds Town Hall Ahead Hotly Contested Wisconsin State Supreme Court Election
    Elon Musk Goes BustTrump’s billionaire aide was humiliated on Tuesday after spending lavishly to boost a conservative Wisconsin supreme-court candidate.
    By Ed Kilgore
  13. early and often
    Smash and Grab: Why Trump Is Moving So FastThe most plausible theory behind Team Trump’s high-speed demolition effort is that they know they’re living on borrowed time.
    By Ed Kilgore
  14. early and often
    Musk Hints Entitlements Like Social Security Are DOGE’s Next TargetThe DOGE edgelord has views on popular entitlement programs that no politician could embrace without fear of extinction.
    By Ed Kilgore
  15. early and often
    Rubio Still Bends the Knee to ‘Leashed’ Elon MuskDon’t be fooled by the talk of Trump “reining in” DOGE. The entire administration is working together to demolish the public sector.
    By Ed Kilgore
  16. public health
    How Do We Defend Science?Start with the life-or-death stakes of the war on public health.
    By Sarah Jones
  17. early and often
    Trump Keeps Everybody Guessing About Elon Musk’s PowerWhat some are interpreting as Trump putting Musk on a leash may just be a ruse to fool the courts and the public.
    By Ed Kilgore
  18. operators
    Dark Days in the DOGE DormElon Musk’s team is sleeping on Ikea beds in their D.C. office. There’s been a request for a washer-dryer.
    By Matthew Sedacca
  19. the law
    Blocked, Unblocked, Reblocked: How to Understand the DOGE Court RulingsHere are three ways to make sense of the now almost daily rulings in the legal fight against Elon Musk’s DOGE.
    By Elie Honig
  20. the purge
    The Lost Do-GoodersMost Ivy Leaguers in civil service will land jobs post-DOGE. But they may not find a new calling.
    By Nick Summers
  21. early and often
    Elon Musk ‘Elated’ to Learn Congress Might Rubber-Stamp His CutsThe rescissions process could let Congress regularize DOGE cuts, but it could produce another dangerous moment for House Republicans.
    By Ed Kilgore
  22. early and often
    Trump Was Always Going to Betray VeteransAs thousands of veterans are laid off, it’s becoming harder to deny that Elon Musk’s billions mean more than a uniform.
    By Sarah Jones
  23. politics
    Trump to ‘Take Good Care’ of Veterans by Firing 80,000 VA EmployeesLast week, Trump dismissed concerns about layoffs impacting veterans. Now, his administration is pursuing huge job reductions at Veterans Affairs.
    By Nia Prater
  24. politics
    GOP Solution to Tense Town Halls: No More Town HallsGOP leaders are advising lawmakers to cut back on in-person town halls in exchange for virtual ones amid a loud voter backlash.
    By Nia Prater
  25. early and often
    Elon Musk
    DOGE Is Bad at MathElon Musk’s crack team can’t seem to calculate how much money they are or aren’t saving taxpayers.
    By Chas Danner
  26. politics
    How Democrats Will Harness Outrage for Trump’s Big SpeechDemocratic members of Congress plan to invite fired federal workers to the Capitol on Tuesday.
    By Nia Prater
  27. early and often
    How Elon Musk Could Spark a Government ShutdownDOGE’s wild rampage is the major sticking point in talks over a deal and he could blow up any such agreement by riling up a troll army.
    By Ed Kilgore
  28. early and often
    Angry Voters Keep Confronting Republicans Back HomePresident Trump blames “paid troublemakers” for the disruptions at several Republican town halls over the past few weeks with no evidence.
    By Nia Prater
  29. operators
    Federal Mortgage Insurer To Lay Off Nearly Half Its Workforce
    The Real-Estate Operators at DOGE Might Know Where You LiveA proptech and a mobile-home executive are two of Musk’s guys with access to troves of sensitive housing data.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  30. the system
    Have We All Just Agreed to Live With Soul-Crushing Racism?The bigotry coming out of the Oval Office has been met with weary complacency.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  31. early and often
    Are Democrats Already Surrendering on Government Spending?The minority party’s only leverage is to refuse to keep the government open without assurances that DOGE will be reined in. It may be giving it up.
    By Ed Kilgore
  32. early and often
    DOGE Was Just Rehearsing for Much-Larger-Scale Federal LayoffsThe Trump administration is launching a more systematic effort that could lay off as many as 700,000 government employees.
    By Ed Kilgore
  33. the law
    America’s Most Dangerous (and Ridiculous) ProsecutorEd Martin is like a toddler with a power tool. Someone is going to get hurt.
    By Elie Honig
  34. screen time
    Musk, DOGE, and the AI-Fueled Plot to Fire EverybodyMAGA takes a cue from big tech and embraces post-human politics.
    By John Herrman
  35. politics
    White House Finally Reveals Who Is (Kind of) Running DOGEThe White House claimed that a former adviser in the U.S. Digital Service, not Elon Musk, is actually in charge.
    By Nia Prater
  36. the purge
    All the Firing, Layoffs and Resignations We Know OfOver 30,000 have been let go or put on leave but information on which departments have been impacted is only trickling out. Here’s what we know.
    By Will Peischel
  37. what we know
    Elon Musk.
    Musk Doubles Down on Mass Email Threat to Federal WorkersAfter OPM said workers weren’t required to respond, Musk said they’ll get another chance to reply or be fired.
    By Chas Danner
  38. early and often
    Trump Didn’t Campaign on Decimating the Federal GovernmentIt’s a Project 2025 plan chaotically implemented by Elon Musk, which most voters couldn’t possibly have expected, let alone supported.
    By Ed Kilgore
  39. the purge
    ‘Big Balls’ on Top of the WorldHow Eddie Coristine, 19, came to join Elon Musk’s revolution terrorizing the federal government.
    By Pilar Meléndez and William Bredderman
  40. early and often
    Speaker Mike Johnson
    A Week of Republican Congressional Chaos Ends in Low ComedyAn all-night Senate debate on a budget resolution that may go nowhere was typical of a very bad week for Congress.
    By Ed Kilgore
  41. early and often
    Stimulus Checks With President Trump's Name Sent Out To Americans
    A DOGE Dividend Is a Bad Idea. Trump May Cut Checks Anyway.It’s probably illegal and definitely irresponsible, but Musk’s idea of rebating DOGE savings to taxpayers could be very seductive to Trump.
    By Ed Kilgore
  42. doge fail compilation
    Elon Musk’s DOGE Keeps Accidentally Firing Very Important PeopleLike the government experts responsible for stopping the spread of bird flu and keeping America’s nuclear stockpile safe.
    By Matt Stieb
  43. early and often
    Elon Musk and GOP Pretend No One Is Responsible for DOGE ChaosRepublicans in Congress have no control over DOGE, and now the White House denies Elon Musk is running it. Convenient!
    By Ed Kilgore
  44. politics
    The Internal Revenue Service Headquarters In Washington, DC
    Trump and Musk’s Government Purge Is Intensifying: UpdatesScores of federal workers are getting axed, endangering many government services, and Trump has now literally declared himself above the law.
    By Intelligencer Staff
  45. early and often
    Trump To Order Federal Job Cuts As Part Of Musk's Downsizing
    DOGE Is About Ideology and Mindless Budget Cutting, Not EfficiencyFor all the whiz-bang rhetoric, DOGE reflects an ancient right-wing belief that even good government is wasteful and its beneficiaries are parasites.
    By Ed Kilgore
  46. what we know
    An organizational flag flies outside of the Office of Personnel Management in Washington, D.C. on February 7.
    What Federal Agencies Has DOGE Gotten Into?From the NOAA to OPM to the Pentagon, here’s an updated look at where Elon Musk’s DOGE is already operating and what they’re doing.
    By Chas Danner
  47. early and often
    Republicans Let Trump and Musk Roll Right Over ThemTrump’s party is bending the knee to his most radical steps, but there are some signs of rebellion to watch for.
    By Ed Kilgore
  48. what we know
    What Elon Musk and DOGE Are Doing to the Federal GovernmentThe billionaire and his cronies continue to move fast and break things. Here are their boldest attacks thus far.
    By Chris Stanton
  49. early and often
    Russ Vought pressing a button.
    Russell Vought Is the Glue Between Elon Musk and RepublicansThe newly confirmed co-author of Project 2025 is a quiet radical with enormous power, who can help keep DOGE and Congress in sync and in line.
    By Ed Kilgore
  50. early and often
    The Week ‘Democrats Must Work With Trump’ DiedThe new administration is running roughshod over Congress, breaking laws wantonly, and empowering Elon Musk. Democrats have had enough.
    By Ed Kilgore
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