Jess Bidgood

Elon Musk likes to talk about transparency. But a major story my colleagues published today shows how he baked secrecy into his Department of Government Efficiency from the start. When devising a plan to overhaul the federal bureaucracy, Musk and […]

A couple of hours before President Trump convened his cabinet for the first time, he used his social media platform to declare that the group was “EXTREMELY HAPPY WITH ELON.” As the meeting began, it seemed to be the members’

They have laid off their own workers. They have reshuffled their departments’ priorities. They have taken aim at D.E.I. But, after weeks of walking in lock step with the White House, some cabinet officials and other high-level Trump appointees have

The tech billionaire Elon Musk has swiftly gained enormous power over the federal government as he works with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency to slash the federal bureaucracy — and upend the nation’s politics. We’re taking a close look

The music was booming. The ballroom was packed. And Elon Musk was onstage, waving a chain saw in the air. I had already seen other surreal sights at the Conservative Political Action Conference — a man with a cat on

Early on in his interview with President Trump and Elon Musk yesterday, Fox News’s Sean Hannity tried ever so gently to get to the bottom of an important question: What does Musk actually do? “He’s your tech support?” Hannity asked,