Federal shake-up looms as tech titans join Trump's cost-cutting mission

Major changes could hit Washington as **Elon Musk** joins forces with Trump to slash federal spending. Meanwhile tech giants face new challenges as DOJ pushes to break-up Googleʼs digital empire

November 21 2024 , 11:35 AM  •  2412 views

Federal shake-up looms as tech titans join Trump's cost-cutting mission

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are set to lead a big govʼt clean-up plan‚ with Trump asking them to find ways to cut federal spending (their meeting happened just yesterday at Trumpʼs office)

Pete Hegseth‚ Trumps pick for defense got into hot water due to some legal trouble; while Project 2025 people keep joining the team. GOPʼs election wins werent as big as expected tho

The House got busy with Matt Gaetz – records show he paid $10k to two women between 17ʼ and 19ʼ. Meanwhile Mike Johnson made some quick bathroom rule changes after Sarah McBrideʼs win (shes the first trans state Senator)

The Justice Dept wants Google to give up Chrome and maybe Android too: they say its too much control over internet search. Court will decide next summer; while Nvidiaʼs stock went down cos of Trumpʼs trade ideas

Sending offensive weapons to Israel is a clear violation of U.S. and international law

Sen. Bernie Sanders statement from Nov 20

The Senate kept the $20B Israel weapons deal going despite some pushback. US also said no to Gaza cease-fire at the UN (we were the only ones out of 14 who did)

Bird flu is making eggs hard-to-find right now – its hitting cage-free farms real bad. Turkey prices are ok but theres this weird thing with potato companies maybe working together to jack up prices

AI computers need lots of power so companies are building gas plants which isnt great for the environment. Also the climate meeting didnt fix much about helping poor countries

Theres this cool new eagle-cam in Minnesota starting today – its gonna show these two eagles making a nest and maybe having babies. Last time they did this lots of people watched it