President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk have big ambitions for making the federal government leaner and more efficient by reviewing its budget and operations from top to bottom.

With his Cabinet picks, Donald Trump is causing a civil-service exodus that may hobble federal infrastructure for generations ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s decision on Wednesday to tap now-former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz to serve as his attorney general raised eyebrows across the political spectrum. Gaetz, a four-term ...

Billionaire entrepreneurs are targeting $2 trillion of federal budget savings, but economists say that is just not feasible ...

President-elect Donald Trump has secured the greatest political comeback in U.S. history, but if it weren't for his 2020 loss ...

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said he's all for President-elect Donald Trump's proposed plan to shut down the U.S. Department of ...

Kentucky U.S. Sen. Rand Paul is preparing to lead the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

Trump wants to not just shake up but eliminate the federal education bureaucracy and send it back to the states. Students ...

"Most fifth-graders who are taking their first government course ... Can those programs be shut down? During his first term, ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries speaks with NPR's Michel Martin about his new book, The ABCs of Democracy, and what's ...

Experts expect Donald Trump’s next administration to relax cybersecurity rules on businesses, abandon concerns around human rights, and take an aggressive stance against the cyber armies of US ...

The idea has existed for years and, as Donald Trump prepares to take office, it will begin on day one: Make thousands of ...