More from Trump’s first 100 days: all the news affecting the tech industry
The original plan, according to reports from The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post, was to discuss plans for a potential war with China, among other topics, raising questions about Musk’s ever-expanding role in the executive branch and potential conflicts with his business interests. President Donald Trump denied the reports, saying “China will not even be mentioned or discussed,” and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said it would cover “innovation, efficiencies & smarter production.”
The Trump administration’s attacks on diversity could lead to more accidents in space missions, experts say.
The Trump administration reportedly has plans to slash the EPA’s budget by 65 percent and shut down its research department, firing up to 1,155 scientists.
“This is a wrecking ball assault on the science that protects the air we breathe and the water we drink from toxic chemicals and pollution,” Jennifer Orme-Zavaleta, former principal deputy assistant administrator at the EPA’s Office of Research and Development, said in a statement yesterday.
After DOGE demolished USAID, the Trump administration has yet to collect work laptops and phones from former employees.
The Trump administration acknowledged in recent court filings that it had terminated nearly 25,000 workers across several agencies during its Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)-fueled cuts. Those workers are now being reinstated under a judge’s instructions. But many of those workers are still on administrative leave, and officials warn that if an appeals court reverses the temporary restraining order, “employees could be subjected to multiple changes in their employment status in a matter of weeks.”
Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) placed 22 California offices for environmental protection and research on its list of leases to terminate, the Los Angeles Times reports.
That includes the L.A. office of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The federal employee union representing EPA employees told The Verge last month that the Trump administration’s efforts to gut the agency could hamper wildfire recovery efforts in the region.
The presidents of the United States have gotten lost in the illusions they created.
Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest reveals the Kafkaesque nightmare that awaits those arrested by ICE.
After a heated hearing in a California district court this morning, Judge William Alsup ruled that the Trump administration must offer to reinstate thousands of federal workers who were fired as part of the DOGE cuts. There were a lot of things that irked the judge, though most predictably, he did not like that an Office of Personnel Management official ghosted the court after being ordered to testify. (“I’m getting mad,” the judge said.)
Longtime Verge readers will recognize Alsup as the unforgivingly exact judge in cases like Oracle v. Google and Waymo v. Uber, a hobbyist coder who studied engineering at Mississippi State.
There’s been no change in plans to wind down the agency, a CFPB employee testified.
