For decades, conservatives in Congress have talked about the need to cut government deeply, but they have always pulled back from mandating specific reductions, fearful of voter backlash.Now, President Donald Trump's administration is trying to make major cuts in government through the so-called Department of Government Efficiency,

The Department of Government Efficiency started as an inside joke. It’s since enabled the world’s richest man to become the most powerful person in the country, after President Donald Trump. And yet the department-that’s-not-a-department remains something of an enigma.

In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) defended Elon Musk and DOGE’s recommendations for federal job cuts, saying that Americans are “fed up” with government spending.