Tuesday about Elon Musk's remarks on cutting up to $700 billion from Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. "This number, it's very big. And you know the sensitivities around tackling entitlement cuts,

Many opponents of the mass layoffs of federal workers being carried out by the Trump administration — with the help of the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) — are arguing that the layoffs will inflict a lot of economic pain without significantly reducing the United States' federal deficit.