Gregory Korte

NEW: The Department of Housing and Urban Development says it wants to stay in the capital region, but several people familiar with the decision said HUD is also considering moving its headquarters to Houston, Kansas City or Akron. -- with @kristoncapps https://t.co/Ocb46zOQBG

NEW: Some federal departments are offering employees a second chance to accept a buyout offer, the latest effort to downsize the US government amid a wave of cuts spearheaded by Elon Musk -- with @allyversprille and @danahull: https://t.co/hISj0oRt7Q

The Social Security Administration said it’s investigating the cause of recent incidents that have prevented beneficiaries from accessing their online accounts, after the portal went down temporarily. https://t.co/kf7aQuo1HP

NEW: President Donald Trump has ordered federal agencies to share data across the government, part of his crusade to eliminate the waste and fraud that he says can be uncovered in many programs and departments. https://t.co/HKjL7A2vla

NEW: The Social Security Administration is threatening to shut down in response to a judge’s ruling blocking DOGE access to agency data — possibly delaying payments to millions of beneficiaries caught in the middle of the legal battle. https://t.co/kwnkLbLTq4

NEW: Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency recruited an assistant to billionaire Ken Griffin to help cut costs across the US national security establishment. Latest with @_ToddGillespie https://t.co/5FecVOqMcR

House Democrats are pressing President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency for more transparency on what it’s doing to police conflicts of interest in billionaire Elon Musk’s effort to reduce the size and scope of government. https://t.co/J4aSyKW7rX

The Social Security Administration will add new procedures requiring beneficiaries to prove their identity before claiming benefits or changing their direct deposit instructions, as part of an effort to crack down on fraud. https://t.co/Kryn8ePyPe

If Trump is right about the autopen, he’s opening the door for the Justice Department to prosecute his political enemies — and forever changing the nature of presidential power. https://t.co/f2is1sTsRS

President Donald Trump’s weekend shutdown of the US Agency for Global Media has among its casualties a small — but influential — fund that helps internet users worldwide combat censorship from oppressive regimes. https://t.co/LUCwekjLVA

President Donald Trump said his predecessor’s 11th-hour pardons were “void, vacant and of no further force or effect,” signaling his administration may attempt to upend more than a century of law and practice for presidential pardons. https://t.co/HiynoVShcT

A staffer for the Department of Government Efficiency violated Treasury Department policies when he sent a spreadsheet containing personal information to two other people in the Trump administration, a federal official revealed in a court filing Friday. https://t.co/BpvBJ4ibSn

NEW: Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency now has 10 staffers at the Social Security Administration as the Trump White House looks for evidence to support its claim that there could be millions of dead people receiving public benefits. https://t.co/ZTKHhN1wXJ

Staff at the Federal Reserve cooperated with the Treasury Department to give Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency access to federal payment systems, according to a new court filing. https://t.co/y0MZVII2H1

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has sent three people with experience in private equity and finance to Social Security, highlighting the focus that President Trump is putting on rooting out fraud in the nation’s social insurance programs. https://t.co/GOZnx9HTA5

President Donald Trump said he directed cabinet secretaries to use a “scalpel” rather than a “hatchet” to make personnel cuts, a directive aiming to quell blowback after waves of job cuts have roiled the federal workforce. https://t.co/pkU4TbCljC

Here's my obituary for the short-lived list of 443 federal properties that the Trump administration wanted to sell yesterday but which was removed from the GSA web site this morning. https://t.co/CM9S4kczg4