President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday expanding the powers of Elon Musk’s federal spending task force, the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The order announces a “transformation” that will compel agencies to build a centralized system recording every one of their contract,

The Five’ panel examines the Democratic Party’s newest attack on DOGE head Elon Musk and the Trump administration goal of cutting waste.

The Social Security Administration has cut half of its outsourced information technology spending, slashing expenditures for private-sector contractors as part of an effort to keep full-time staff employed,

District Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, overruled objections from the U.S. Department of Justice.

The Justice Department fought the effort to put staffers involved in the controversial cost-slashing effort under oath.