https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AE8BAyYTDrs/max-stier RSS for Node Sun, 10 May 2026 11:19:06 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-01-03/musk-s-doge-should-work-with-the-government-not-against-it https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-01-03/musk-s-doge-should-work-with-the-government-not-against-it Fri, 03 Jan 2025 12:00:05 GMT Tesla CEO Elon Musk, co-chair of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), carries his son "X" on his shoulders before a meeting with members of Congress at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on December 5, 2024. President-elect Trump rewarded the Tesla, X and SpaceX chief for his support in the White House race by naming him head of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, along with another wealthy ally, Vivek Ramaswamy. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP) (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-12-19/senate-holds-on-nominees-are-soaring-and-crippling-washington https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-12-19/senate-holds-on-nominees-are-soaring-and-crippling-washington Tue, 19 Dec 2023 11:30:04 GMT UNITED STATES - MAY 18: Gavel waits for Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., about an hour before the start of the confirmation hearing for Gen. Michael V. Hayden, President Bush's nominee to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, at the U.S. Capitol. Hayden is expected to face tough questions about his independence from the Bush administration, his role as the architect of a controversial surveillance program and his vision for the beleaguered CIA. The panel will hold an open session Thursday morning, to be followed by a closed session where classified issues will be aired. Lawmakers expressed concerns Wednesday whether Hayden, currently serving as the deputy to John D. Negroponte, the director of national intelligence (DNI), will be strong enough to resist administration pressure to produce intelligence estimates that bolster major policy decisions, as some Bush critics allege former CIA Director George Tenet did before the Iraq War. (Photo by Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-11-14/the-broken-senate-confirmation-process-leaves-financial-oversight-jobs-empty https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-11-14/the-broken-senate-confirmation-process-leaves-financial-oversight-jobs-empty Tue, 14 Nov 2023 13:00:03 GMT TOPSHOT - The US Capitol is seen in Washington, DC on January 22, 2018 after the US Senate reached a deal to reopen the federal government, with Democrats accepting a compromise spending bill. / AFP PHOTO / MANDEL NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-09-26/us-government-shutdown-will-hurt-efforts-to-replace-aging-workforce https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-09-26/us-government-shutdown-will-hurt-efforts-to-replace-aging-workforce Tue, 26 Sep 2023 10:00:05 GMT WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 03: US President Joe Biden delivers remarks about the latest jobs report in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on February 03, 2023 in Washington, DC. According to the Labor Department, employers added 517,000 jobs in January, more than economists anticipated and sending the unemployment rate to its lowest level since 1969.(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-08-21/a-us-government-shutdown-should-never-be-an-option https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-08-21/a-us-government-shutdown-should-never-be-an-option Mon, 21 Aug 2023 11:30:07 GMT WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 23: Federal employees hold up signs made with styrofoam plates during a protest at the atrium of Senate Hart Office Building January 23, 2019 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Federal employees from different unions participated in a "Occupy Hart" protest on Capitol Hill against the partial government shutdown. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-04-11/tax-day-april-18-the-irs-is-becoming-a-model-of-efficiency-really https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-04-11/tax-day-april-18-the-irs-is-becoming-a-model-of-efficiency-really Tue, 11 Apr 2023 13:37:36 GMT An Internal Revenue Service 1040 Individual income tax form for 2021 arranged in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S., on Tuesday, April 12, 2022. Refund sizes in some cases have been up by nearly 25% compared with last year due to pandemic relief programs and rising wages. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-05-04/senate-confirmation-for-1-200-jobs-is-holding-biden-back https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-05-04/senate-confirmation-for-1-200-jobs-is-holding-biden-back Tue, 04 May 2021 18:21:34 GMT WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 13: The U.S. Senate seal hangs on the hearing room wall on the second day of the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Amy Coney Barrett before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on October 13, 2020 in Washington, DC. With less than a month until the presidential election, President Donald Trump tapped Amy Coney Barrett to be his third Supreme Court nominee in just four years. If confirmed, Barrett would replace the late Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. (Photo by Susan Walsh-Pool/Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2020-11-20/the-federal-toll-of-trump-s-failure-to-lead https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2020-11-20/the-federal-toll-of-trump-s-failure-to-lead Fri, 20 Nov 2020 11:30:02 GMT “Fired by tweet” has become a hallmark of the Trump administration. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-02-20/the-u-s-has-too-many-political-appointees https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-02-20/the-u-s-has-too-many-political-appointees Mon, 20 Feb 2017 14:00:07 GMT WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 1: A view of empty Democrat seats during a meeting of the Senate Finance Committee to vote on the nominations of cabinet nominees Tom Price and Steve Mnuchin, on Capitol Hill, February 1, 2017 in Washington, DC. After Senate Democrats on the committee did not show up for the meeting for the second day in a row, Senate Republicans on the committee suspended committee rules and voted on Price and Mnuchin without the Democrats. 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