California
Hundreds gathered outside City Hall in Long Beach to protest President Trump and Elon Musk
Letters to the Editor
There are legal ways to enact fiscal responsibility. Having an unelected billionaire target federal agencies isn’t one of them.
World & Nation
Musk’s role could be key in legal fight over DOGE’s access to government data as the Trump administration moves to lay off thousands of federal workers.
Business
OpenAI’s board rejected a $97.4-billion bid by an Elon Musk-led investment group to buy the San Francisco startup. OpenAI’s board chair said the company is not for sale.
Readers decry the spectacle of Elon Musk standing in the Oval Office taking questions from reporters with President Trump at his side.
A reader says the Constitution vests the president with executive authority, and the president has authorized Elon Musk’s work.
Opinion
The DOGE leader gets this right: Some of the things he says about government waste, fraud and abuse have to be corrected.
Politics
Elon Musk wants to ‘delete entire agencies.’ With Trump’s blessing, the billionaire consolidated control over large swaths of the federal government.
‘Everyone should be furious about Musk’s intrusion into our government, our data and our lives,’ says a reader. ‘This is not normal. This is not constitutional.’
The states’ lawsuit claims that Musk has “roamed through the federal government unraveling agencies, accessing sensitive data, and causing mass chaos and confusion.”