Friends Julie Roginsky, a Democrat, and Mike DuHaime, a Republican, talk politics: Until DOGE starts hurting communities, people don't care.

President Donald Trump said repeatedly on the campaign trail that, if elected, he wouldn’t cut Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security. As recently as last week, accompanied by his surrogate Elon Musk,

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Meet the Press says cuts to federal entitlements like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security are off the table but “we need to target” any “waste and abuse” Elon Musk finds.

Trump government efficiency adviser Elon Musk called the alleged payments "the biggest fraud operation in human history."

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has targeted federal agencies like USAID, CFPB, and NOAA to reduce government spending.

Despite tariff-induced tumult at home, Donald Trump took the time Friday morning to lambast South Africa for how it treats its farmers, threatening aggressive foreign policy toward the continent’s strongest economy by announcing that the United States would stop all federal funding to the African nation.

The meeting represented the outpouring of weeks of building tensions between the head of DOGE and President Donald Trump’s top political officials.

Trump claims DOGE will proceed with a "scalpel"-like approach to government cost-cutting which, based on the unit's history, is doubtful.