Tim Murphy
National Politics Reporter at Mother Jones
national correspondent @motherjones. [email protected]
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2 weeks ago |
motherjones.com | Tim Murphy
The so-called Department of Government Efficiency was many things in the first months of the second Trump administration. It was a chain saw, a wood chipper, and “a way of life, like Buddhism,” according to Elon Musk, its fearless leader according to everyone but the president’s lawyers. It was a funnel of disinfo, a conflict of interest, a bureaucratic mystery, and a tired meme. But above all, it was the realization of a dream.
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3 weeks ago |
motherjones.com | Tim Murphy
Elon Musk is trying to rewrite the history of his four-month tenure in Washington. As the billionaire founder of Tesla and Space X returns to the private sector after four months as a “special government employee,” he has put aside the celebratory chainsaw and cast himself as a misunderstood outsider whose dreams of efficiency were stymied by a terminally broken bureaucracy.
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4 weeks ago |
kates-boylston.com | Tim Murphy
Lori Eanes, president of C&L Containers Inc. of Portsmouth, Virginia, was elected 2025-26 Casket & Funeral Supply Association of America president during the association’s recent annual conference and tradeshow in Cleveland.
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1 month ago |
motherjones.com | Russ Choma |Dan Friedman |Tim Murphy
Eight years ago, if you wanted to line the first family’s pockets, your choices—while ethically unprecedented—were limited. There was only so much you could spend on hotel rooms or Mar-a-Lago fundraisers. Fortunately for foreign governments, megacorporations, and anyone else with an agenda, the Trumps have diversified.
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1 month ago |
motherjones.com | Tim Murphy
On a sunny afternoon in early February, two dozen Democratic representatives, clutching smartphones and talking points, converged on the Treasury Department’s public entrance in downtown Washington, DC. For weeks, a strike force from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, loosely vetted and barely old enough to vote, had swarmed federal buildings with a mandate to dismantle the government’s core institutions and bend what was left to their whims.
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