For Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Rough Education in MAGA Politics

The Georgia congresswoman strove to be both the ultimate Trump warrior and to be taken seriously. She wound up in political exile.

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Elon Musk Puts Trump Feud Behind Him and Tiptoes Back Into Politics

Having struck an uneasy truce with the president, Elon Musk is starting to make political appearances again, and his allies are planning a DOGE reunion party.

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Dismantled by DOGE, a Foreign Policy Center Finds New Life

The Kennan Institute, which researches Russia and the surrounding region, has re-emerged in a form that is smaller but more impervious to government control.

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Trump’s Unilateral Spending Cuts Complicate Shutdown Deal

Democrats want guarantees that President Trump will not continue to claw back spending, ignoring any agreement they strike. But he has promised to keep defying Congress.

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Trump Calls Shutdown an ‘Unprecedented Opportunity,’ and Eyes Deep Cuts

The president plans to meet with the White House budget chief to slash what he described as “Democrat agencies.”

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Democratic Report Says Disorder at DOGE Jeopardized Americans’ Data

Members of a Senate panel described a haphazard working and living environment that involved transferring sensitive information to servers “without any verified security controls.”

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The D.C. Region Has Faced an Outsized Toll From Trump’s Policies

With the mass layoffs and cancellations of thousands of federal grants and contracts, the region has taken a disproportionate hit.

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Mass Firing of Probationary Federal Employees Was Illegal, Judge Rules

Months have passed since the lawsuit was filed, and many of the fired employees have moved on, the judge noted.

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Republican Senator Asks Social Security Agency About Whistle-Blower’s Claims

The chair of the Finance Committee sent the agency a letter inquiring about allegations that it had put the confidential personal information of Americans at risk.

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DOGE Put Critical Social Security Data at Risk, Whistle-Blower Says

DOGE team members uploaded a database with the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to a vulnerable cloud server, according to the agency’s chief data officer.

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