The orders were another example of the Supreme Court granting a Trump administration’s emergency request to lift or scale back lower court rulings blocking his initiatives.

Spike in early Social Security claims this year points to growing concerns about the health of the Social Security system, experts say.

Social Security faces insolvency, bringing to mind the question: If the program ends, what happens to the money you've already paid in? Find out what to expect.

Trump's spending bill includes around $4.9 trillion in tax breaks and increases funding for defense and border security, some of which would be paid for by Social Security cuts. It would also raise the debt ceiling, the limit on how much the federal government can borrow, to $4 trillion.

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), formerly headed by Elon Musk,tried to implement changes in the Social Security Administration (SSA) – but the pushback has caused the agency to reverse many of the changed pushed by DOGE.

The Trump administration has reportedly paused a $47 million plan to expand an immigration detention center in Georgia because the deal is under review by DOGE, Elon Musk ’s federal cost-cutting program.

DOGE's murky push to amass data at federal agencies could hurt the U.S. government's ability to produce reliable census results, economic indicators and other statistics in the future, experts warn.