Several people briefed on the matter said cuts to the IRS cuts numbering in the thousands. One target is tax collections.

President Donald Trump on Thursday threw his support behind the Department of Government Efficiency investigation into alleged fraud and waste at the Internal Revenue Service. Trump has long railed against the IRS,

Elon Musk and his team at the Department of Government Efficiency have arrived at the Department of Housing and Urban Development — eyeing potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in spending cuts and layoffs for thousands of federal employees as the agency combats a national homelessness crisis.

Justin Fulcher, co-founder of telemedicine startup RingMD, is leading Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency effort at the US Department of Veterans Affairs, according to two people familiar with the matter.

President Donald Trump had said the Pentagon would be an early target of Musk's DOGE, which has swept through federal agencies searching for spending cuts as part of Trump's overhaul and shrinking of the U.

President Trump and Elon Musk have spent three weeks slashing federal jobs — often in defiance of legal limits — and there are more to come. These are the reported cuts to date.

DOGE acknowledged that the work was incomplete but said it was part of an “enormous manual effort consolidating 16,000+ offices.”