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Members of a South Texas community that has served as the hub of Elon Musk’s rocket launch company, SpaceX, voted on Saturday to formally establish a new city called Starbase, fulfilling one of Mr. Musk’s long-held dreams. At the time the polls closed at 7 p.m., 173 out of 177 votes were in favor of…
President Trump on Friday proposed slashing $163 billion in federal spending for the next fiscal year, a dramatic reconfiguration of the government’s role and reach that would eliminate a vast array of climate, education, health and housing programs, including some that primarily benefit the poor. Mr. Trump’s discretionary $1.7 trillion blueprint illustrates his conservative vision…
President Trump on Friday plans to unveil his budget for the 2026 fiscal year, proposing billions of dollars in cuts targeting child care, education, health, housing and nutrition programs, including those that benefit the poor. The blueprint is likely to showcase Mr. Trump’s conservative vision for Washington while formalizing his disruptive reorganization already underway, as…
The chair of Tesla’s board of directors denied a report that the company had begun to look for a replacement for Elon Musk, the chief executive who has been spending much of his time working for President Trump while the automaker’s sales and profits plummet. Robyn Denholm, who has led the board for more than…
Trump’s tumultuous start When President Trump took office in January for his second term, business leaders anticipated an administration that would lower taxes, loosen regulations and open up deal-making. Instead, Wall Street got chaos. The president has taken a cudgel to global trade with enormous tariffs, threatened the independence of the Fed and made the…
Two weeks ago, a three-judge panel from the federal appeals court in Washington lifted a freeze on firing employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, with some conditions. The judges, ruling on a Friday night, said that workers could be fired if agency leaders determined, after a careful assessment, that they were not needed to…
As Elon Musk sought to reassure Wall Street analysts on Tuesday that he would soon scale back his work with the federal government, the strain of his situation was audible in his voice. The world’s richest man said that he would continue arguing that the Trump administration should lower tariffs it has imposed on countries…
President Trump and Elon Musk promised taxpayers big savings, maybe even a “DOGE dividend” check in their mailboxes, when the Department of Government Efficiency was let loose on the federal government. Now, as he prepares to step back from his presidential assignment to cut bureaucratic fat, Mr. Musk has said without providing details that DOGE…
At the Department of Health and Human Services, Trump administration officials want to reverse a regulation that has required nursing homes to have more medical staff on duty. At the Mine Safety and Health Administration, powerful lobbying groups have asked the administration to eliminate a rule to protect miners from inhaling the dust of crystalline…
Tesla has stopped accepting new orders in China for two car models that it imports from a factory in the United States, after the Chinese government imposed steep tariffs on American imports. On Friday, Tesla’s website in China removed the “order” button from the Model S sedan and Model X sport utility vehicle. Customers still…