The meeting represented the outpouring of weeks of building tensions between the head of DOGE and President Donald Trump’s top political officials.

Elon Musk salutes the crowd during President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on March 4, 2025. | Pete Kiehart for POLITICO President Donald Trump convened his Cabinet in person on Thursday to deliver a message: You’re in charge of your departments,

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order establishing a government reserve of bitcoin, a key marker in the cryptocurrency’s journey towards possible mainstream acceptance.

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to establish a strategic bitcoin reserve, a day before meeting with executives from the cryptocurrency industry at the White House.

A federal judge has given the Trump administration until Monday to pay nearly $2 billion owed to partners of the U.S.

Judge Amir Ali gave the State Department four days to pay past invoices from groups suing over the aid freeze.

The justices split 5-4 on whether to halt a judge’s order to restart nearly $2 billion in State Department and USAID payments for work that has been done.

The president of the United States is telling the D.C. mayor that the homeless camps around the District have to go. It’s just the latest word from the White House telling the mayor what she needs to do in the nation’s capital.

President Donald Trump has ordered D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to “clean up” homeless camps near the White House and the State Department—or have the federal government do it for her. “We have notified the Mayor of Washington,

President Donald Trump demanded that the mayor of Washington DC clean up "unsightly" homeless encampments or face "force" from his administration.