The Trump Administration has granted sweeping authority to “special government employees” (SGEs), the most high-profile being Elon Musk, the world’s richest person. This unprecedented use ...

A pair of bills would seek to give hiring preference to axed feds and to standardize the length of probationary periods for ...

Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-N.M., is seeking to bar special government employees like tech billionaire and senior Trump adviser Elon Musk from communicating with ...

After firing tens of thousands of federal workers this year, President Donald Trump has also made it much harder for them to ...

Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) made calls during a House Oversight Committee hearing to cancel Elon Musk’s government contracts if he exceeds the 130 days allotted to him to serve as a special ...

Court declines to block more firings of recently hired staff, saying individual agencies are now making their own decisions.

The White House has said he is a “special government employee,” which allowed him, unlike full-time federal workers, to continue making money from the “like 17 jobs” he talks about having.

However, as a special government employee, Musk was only supposed to spend 130 days per year on government work. With about 36 weeks left in the year, Musk’s total time in the SGE role could ...