The meeting on Thursday, which was titled "Planning Touch Base," included a top DOGE lieutenant, Rachel Riley, along with recently Trump-appointed top brass at CMS, including Acting Administrator and Chief of Staff Stephanie Carlton,

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

The post 2008 financial shock, by necessity, required governments create massive piles of cash to sustain the economy, especially if they were not going to bail out holders of home mortgages. Turning cash over to finance kept the economy humming,

Speaking at a POLITICO event, Chiquita Brooks-LaSure suggested that Elon Musk and his team don't have sufficient expertise in Medicare.

Any that takes place appears to be of the small change, one-person-at-a-time sort, not the larger-scale continuing issues at Medicaid and Medicare.

Every single member of Congress must publicly pledge that they will keep the promises Trump made on the campaign trail to not cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.  The only efficiency Elon Musk cares about is how efficiently he can take your money to line his own pockets.

The billionaire's claims about millions of dead people on Social Security are dead wrong. The real problem is a shrinking workforce paying into the system.

Elon Musk has said that Social Security benefits could increase as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) continues its investigations into the Social Security Administration (SSA).

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk — whose net worth is just shy of $400 billion — just dropped a hint that he may be eyeing significant cuts to earned benefits programs like Social Security and Medicare in the future.

Billionaire Elon Musk has said there is widespread fraud taking place in the payment of "federal entitlements" like Social Security. Social Security benefits are paid to more than 70 million Americans on a monthly basis, and help form the bedrock of income for many retirees, survivors of deceased claimants and disabled people.

Gleason is a former health-care executive and nurse who worked for the U.S. Digital Service, DOGE’s predecessor, and has advocated for better medical record-keeping.