President Trump and Elon Musk’s efforts to cut funding for programs and fire thousands of federal workers, including veterans, have raised concerns and may negatively impact the Republican

More than 2 million federal workers received an email over the weekend threatening firing if they can't justify their work performance by Monday night.

Following the termination of more than 1,400 Department of Veterans Affairs employees on Monday, including some in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Democrats condemned the widespread firings. It's the second round of terminations at the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office last month,

More than 1,000 employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs were fired amid the Trump administration's broad layoffs last week.

After Elon Musk demanded that federal workers detail their work accomplishments via email, VA employees who contacted BI strongly opposed the effort.

Milwaukee VA employees were first advised to comply with an Elon Musk directive to detail their work accomplishments, then were told it's not required.

Paul Lawrence, the Trump administration's nominee for deputy secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, pledged Wednesday to look into recent firings at the VA and ensure that veterans' health and benefits information is protected from incursions by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.

In his latest opinion column, Lubbock County Democrat Kyle Rable condemns recent cuts to spending for programs impacting veterans and healthcare.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement that Reuters’s sources were “wrong,” that Trump had signed off on the idea, that DOGE and OPM had given the White House advance notice of the email’s release, and that the “White House was not caught off guard.”

Democratic Representative Marcy Kaptur has questioned Elon Musk 's loyalty to the United States due to the billionaire DOGE head holding citizenship for two other countries. Newsweek reached out to Musk via Tesla and Kaptur's office via phone for comment.

Does Musk have a shot at cutting $1 trillion from the deficit? Mathematically, yes. As a practical matter, it would be difficult.