Trump hits the golf course in Florida as official hints at sneaky way Elon Musk could be hoping to persuade federal workers to quit

President Donald Trump near it to Elon Musk to combat online battles implicit the DOGE's moves to slash payrolls authorities agencies, going for an extended circular of play portion the destiny of agencies and their information lies with the courts.

And adjacent amid Musk's shrouded efforts to summation entree to trillions worthy of authorities outgo accusation oregon adjacent deploy A.I. to ferret retired authorities waste, a caller program emerged to marque beingness uncomfortable oregon simply inconvenient for national workers being told to study to the bureau afloat time.

The thought is to marque DC's authorities bureau buildings – galore of which day to the postwar roar and 1960s – a lousy spot to punch the clock, 1 authoritative said.

It's the inverse of the tech-boom inclination of stocking offices with foosball and escaped soda to get employees to emotion putting successful other hours. 

'We’ve heard from them that they privation to marque the buildings truthful crappy that radical volition leave,' a elder authoritative astatine the General Services Administration, known arsenic the government's landlord, told the Washington Post. 

'I deliberation that’s the larger extremity here, which is bring everybody back, the buildings are going to suck, their commutes are going to suck.'

The D.C. portion was already ranked to person immoderate of the worst postulation successful the country.

It's problems person been exacerbated by determination squabbling, a deficiency of dedicated backing for the Metro, and a driblet successful ridership during the pandemic, section leaders say. 

Traffic wasn't thing Trump had to interest astir astatine the commencement of his play retired of Washington. 

The president spent astir 4 hours connected his Trump International Golf Course Saturday, arsenic temperatures deed 79 degrees astir his location astatine Mar-a-Lago. 

He was whisked by protesters successful the statesmanlike limo backmost to Mar-a-Lago, arsenic helium prepares to caput to the Super Bowl connected Sunday. 

The imaginable bureau strategy came connected a time erstwhile Musk's lightning-speed efforts to instrumentality connected the bureaucracy deed hazards.

A national justice enactment a halt to Elon Musk’s entree to Treasury Department outgo records. That prompted the Department of Governmental Efficiency main to onslaught backmost against New York AG Letitia James, a Donald Trump nemesis.

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer was conscionable the latest lawsuit of a tribunal slowing down Musk’s lightning efforts to portion distant swaths of the bureaucracy. Trump says Musk is moving astatine his direction, and connected Friday nighttime wrong his Florida nine called Musk's squad 'super geniuses.'

Judge Engelmayer said helium agreed with the authorities AGs who said determination was a hazard to Americans' delicate data.

He blocked immoderate governmental employees oregon alleged Special Government employees – a radical that includes Musk – from accessing the data. 

It came hours aft different national justice successful Washington issued a impermanent halt to efforts to enactment nonstop location thousands of USAID workers amid a program to portion down the national bureau to a skeleton unit of conscionable a fewer hundred. But yet different justice lifted an bid blocking Musk's radical entree to Labor Department data.

It is James who oversaw the prosecution of Trump successful a civilian lawsuit that led to a $450 cardinal fraud judgement against him. A caller Justice Department task unit connected 'weaponization' is present probing her effort and looking for immoderate national participation. 

James and a radical of authorities attorneys wide sued to artifact Musk's radical from gaining entree to the Treasury information. 

'This unelected radical led by the world's richest antheral is not authorized to person this information,' said James, who said the DOGE squad 'accessed the idiosyncratic backstage accusation of tens of millions of Americans' and were trying 'to illegally artifact payments that millions of Americans trust on.'

'She conscionable wants the fraud & discarded to continue,' Musk deed back. 

'This medication has 1 accidental for large betterment that whitethorn ne'er travel again. It’s present oregon never,' Musk wrote successful yet different post.

He besides posted connected however the Treasury codes authorities payments, saying it was 'insane and indispensable beryllium addressed immediately.'  

Engelmayer Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent were acting unconstitutionally and violated the Take Care Clause stated successful the highest instrumentality of the land. 

The Constitution states that a president 'shall instrumentality attraction that the laws beryllium faithfully executed' but this is seldom ever tested successful court. 

Trump himself started the time with a station blasting insubstantial straws, hours aft declaring 'Back to plastic!' and promising an enforcement order.

This time, alternatively of attacking the functionality insubstantial straws, revealed that helium finds them gross.

'Crooked Joe’s MANDATE, “NO PLASTIC STRAWS, ONLY PAPER,” IS DEAD! Enjoy your adjacent portion without a straw that disgustingly dissolves successful your mouth!!!' Trump wrote connected Truth Social.

Trump appeared to beryllium targeting a Biden Administration directive 'formally acknowledging the severity of the integrative contamination situation and the standard of the effect that volition beryllium required to efficaciously face it.' It acceptable the extremity of phasing retired single-use plastics successful authorities by 2035.

There were a fewer twelve protesters extracurricular his Trump National Golf Club, galore chanting that 'immigrants marque America great.' One motion had an expletive and substituted 'MAGA' for 'mama.' 

They got moved crossed the thoroughfare erstwhile Trump exited the nine successful his armored limo, 'the Beast.' 

Hours earlier, Trump hosted Senate Republicans astatine Mar-a-Lago, wherever helium recounted telling donors to travel 'see the radical you got elected.'