Lauren Feiner

President Donald Trump says he gave Elon Musk a “big discount” in his $10 million settlement with X over his account suspension lawsuit. Musk, who’s been working in the White House and publicly (although, supposedly, not technically) leading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), said he hasn’t once seen Trump do something “that was mean or cruel or wrong.” Trump also brushed off critics’ efforts to “drive us apart” by calling calling Musk president.

President Donald Trump asserted “Presidential supervision and control of the entire executive branch,” including independent regulatory agencies like the Federal Trade Commission and Federal Communications Commission in an executive order issued Tuesday. The order commands “so-called independent agencies” to submit “significant regulatory actions” to the Executive Office of the President before they’re officially published, and have consultations with White House staff, even though their regulatory power is supposed to be protected from presidential control.

The Department of Government Efficiency website misstated its cost-savings for the federal government by several billion dollars before revising the error, The New York Times reports. The Times found that a contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was initially listed at $8 billion in a government database, but was updated to $8 million in January, shortly before it was terminated. While DOGE updated the number, it didn’t acknowledge the initial error.