Top Treasury officials have complained about disruption. The secretary of state has pushed back on staff cuts. Inside the Education and Health and Human Services departments, political appointees have been informed - not consulted - about canceled grants and contracts,

Trump praised Musk's efforts to reduce the size of the federal bureaucracy and then called on him to do even more.

The decision to fire Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., a four-star fighter pilot, broke a tradition in which the Joint Chiefs chairman remains in place with a new president.

Brown is among the senior military officials the Trump administration and has linked to Biden-era diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.

The nominee to replace Gen. CQ Brown, the second Black officer to serve in the Pentagon’s senior military post, is a retired Air Force general.

So President Donald Trump thinks Ukraine shouldn’t have started the war with Russia (did Poland start World War II?) (“A news conference between Zelenskyy and Trump’s Ukraine envoy is canceled amid growing tensions,