President Donald Trump's second administration continued its swift recasting of the federal government, prompting pushback from Democrats and legal challenges.
The president said Sunday that he will announce tariffs on all imported steel and aluminum on Monday but didn't say when they'll take effect.
Trump, meanwhile, is at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans on Sunday night to take in the Super Bowl. Trump picked the Kansas City Chiefs to beat the Philadelphia Eagles in an interview aired before the game on Fox.
Over the weekend, Elon Musk used his social media platform X to target a federal judge who blocked his DOGE team from accessing sensitive taxpayer data, attacking the judge as "corrupt," with seemingly no evidence of corruption beyond the billionaire's disagreement with the ruling.
Since the ruling on Friday, Musk has posted repeatedly on X to his over 216 million followers, attacking U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer as "corrupt," calling for his impeachment, and appearing to suggest defying the court’s order -- including amplifying a post with the judge's name that now has more than 6 million impressions.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk attends the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, Jan. 20, 2025 in Washington.
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Musk's targeting of the judge mirrors his previous attack campaigns, where he has turned his own social media platform and massive following into political pressure.
-ABC News’ Will Steakin
Feb 09, 2025, 9:52 AM EST
Trump says Musk 'not gaining anything' from DOGE
Asked if he trusts Elon Musk, President Trump said the billionaire is "not gaining anything" from his position with the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.
"He's not gaining anything. In fact, I wonder how he can devote the time to it. He's so into it. But I told him to do that," Trump told Fox News' Bret Baier in an excerpt from an interview that will air Sunday afternoon ahead of the Super Bowl.
Trump told Baier the next government agency he'll have Musk investigate is the Department of Education, adding that he was elected to reduce government waste.
Elon Musk walks on Capitol Hill on the day of a meeting with Senate Republican Leader-elect John Thune in Washington, Dec. 5, 2024.
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"Then I'm going to tell him very soon, like maybe in 24 hours, to go check the Department of Education. He's going to find the same thing. Then I'm going to go to the military. Let's check the military, we're going to find billions -- hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud and abuse. And you know the people elected me on that.”
The full interview with Fox will air Sunday afternoon.
-ABC News' Hannah Demissie
Feb 09, 2025, 9:01 AM EST
Trump golfing with Tiger Woods
Trump is golfing at his Trump National Doral Golf Club in West Palm Beach with pro golfer Tiger Woods this morning, according to a White House official.
In an Aug. 10, 2023 file photo, President Donald Trump hits his shot from the first fairway prior to the LIV Golf Invitational - Bedminster at Trump National Golf Club, Bedminster, N.J.
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The president will attend the Super Bowl in New Orleans later today, where he'll sit in New Orleans Saints' owner Gayle Benson's box. They'll be joined by House Speaker Mike Johnson, who is from Louisiana.
-ABC News' Hannah Demissie
Feb 08, 2025, 11:25 PM EST
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau virtually shut down as DOGE, Russ Vought take over
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) -- the government watchdog charged with safeguarding American consumers’ finances -- has come to a virtual standstill Saturday night, according to an internal email obtained by ABC News.
The email sent late Saturday night directs all CFPB staff to "cease all supervision and examination activity" and "cease all stakeholder engagement" effective immediately. The agency’s website shows an error message and its X account was also taken down.
The email was sent by Russell Vought, the newly confirmed director of the Office of Management and Budget, who is also now the acting director of the CFPB. Vought was an architect of "Project 2025."
Russell Vought arrives to testify before a US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on his second nomination to be OMB director, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 15, 2025.
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In a post on X, Vought said the CFPB’s funding, which comes through the Federal Reserve, is "now being turned off."
Vought's internal email also says that, unless approved by him or required by law, employees, contractors and other personnel of the CFPB cannot issue any proposed or final rules, open any new investigations or issue any public communications.
On Friday, Elon Musk tweeted "CFPB RIP." Sources previously told ABC News that staffers for Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency had gained access to internal systems at the CFPB.
The CFPB is a regulatory agency established by law after the 2008 financial crisis.
The agency says, since its creation in 2011, it has returned nearly $21 billion to American consumers.
Under the Biden administration, the CFPB took aggressive steps to take on the banking and financial services industries, issuing rules that would cap credit card overdraft fees and remove medical debt from Americans’ credit reports.
-ABC News' Elizabeth Schulze, Will Steakin and Katherine Faulders
