President Donald Trump gives tech billionaire Elon Musk a gold-colored key for his work establishing the “Department of Government Efficiency,” which sought to layoff federal workers and close government agencies to achieve cost savings.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk, who just left the Trump administration as an adviser involved in the Department of Government Efficiency, blasted the tax cuts and spending plans backed by the president that passed the House.”
This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination,” Musk posted Tuesday on X. “Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.”
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Judge rules federal prisons must continue providing hormone therapy to transgender inmates: The federal Bureau of Prisons must continue providing hormone therapy and social accommodations to hundreds of transgender inmates following an executive order signed by Trump that led to a disruption in medical treatment, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.McMahon defends cuts at Harvard University: Testifying at a budget hearing, Education Secretary Linda McMahon faced the question: How can the Education Department demand that Harvard end its diversity programs while also demanding new “viewpoint diversity” in hiring and admissions? She said Harvard’s diversity, equity and inclusion practices were “pitting one group against another” and needed to go, while viewpoint diversity “is an exchange of ideas that’s actually better.” Top Trump officials visit prolific Alaska oil field: Trump wants to double the amount of oil coursing through Alaska’s vast pipeline system and build a massive natural gas project as its “big, beautiful twin,” a top administration official said during a multiday trip aimed at highlighting Trump’s push to expand oil and gas drilling, mining and logging in the state that drew criticism from environmentalists.
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