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How Elon Musk and His Associates Are Remaking the Federal Bureaucracy

28 stories published since 2024

A DOGE Aide Involved in Dismantling Consumer Bureau Owns Stock in Companies That Could Benefit From the Cuts

Inspector General Probes Whether Trump, DOGE Sought Private Taxpayer Information or Sensitive IRS Material

White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On

The Trump Administration’s War on Children

Trump Laid Off Nearly All the Federal Workers Who Investigate Firefighter Deaths

Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More

Two Months After Trump’s Funding Cuts, a Nonprofit Struggles to Support Refugees and Itself

Beyond Showerheads: Trump’s Attempts to Kill Appliance Regulations Cause Chaos

Trump Said Cuts Wouldn’t Affect Public Safety. Then He Fired Hundreds of Workers Who Help Fight Wildfires.

How Investigative Journalists Actually Find Fraud, Waste and Abuse

Did You Work on a Terminated NIH Grant? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You.

Fend for Yourself: Under Trump, Consumer Protection Bureau’s Probes of Big Tech and Finance Firms Freeze Up

Killing Grants That Have Saved Lives: Trump’s Cuts Signal End to Government Work on Terrorism Prevention

Emails Reveal Top IRS Lawyer Warned Trump Firings Were a “Fraud” on the Courts

Who’s Running the DOGE Wrecking Machine: The World’s Richest Man or a Little-Known Bureaucrat?

Washington Blues: A Government Town Faces a Gloomy Future

“The President Wanted It and I Did It”: Recording Reveals Head of Social Security’s Thoughts on DOGE and Trump

How DOGE’s Cuts to the IRS Threaten to Cost More Than DOGE Will Ever Save

DOGE Gains Access to Confidential Records on Housing Discrimination, Medical Details — Even Domestic Violence

The Trump Administration Keeps Citing an Untrue Stat as It Targets Federal Workers

Anxiety Mounts Among Social Security Recipients as DOGE Troops Settle In

DOGE’s Millions: As Musk and Trump Gut Government, Their Ax-Cutting Agency Gets Cash Infusion

The Staffers Helping Elon Musk Dismantle and Downsize the U.S. Government, One Agency at a Time

One Agency Tried to Regulate SpaceX. Now Its Fate Could Be in Elon Musk’s Hands.

Elon Musk’s Team Decimates Education Department Arm That Tracks National School Performance

The Elite Lawyers Working for Elon Musk’s DOGE Include Former Supreme Court Clerks

Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Expected to Examine Another Treasury System Next Week

An Open Letter to Elon Musk

What We’re Watching

During Donald Trump’s second presidency, ProPublica will focus on the areas most in need of scrutiny. Here are some of the issues our reporters will be watching — and how to get in touch with them securely.

Learn more about our reporting team. We will continue to share our areas of interest as the news develops.

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Melissa Sanchez

I report on immigration and labor, and I am based in Chicago.

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Jesse Coburn

I cover housing and transportation, including the companies working in those fields and the regulators overseeing them.

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