Trump famously invited fellow billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead an effort to cut government spending and federal payrolls. But in December Musk went rogue and used his vast social media reach to scuttle a spending bill he didn’t like, complicating Trump’s and the GOP’s fiscal plans in the new session of Congress.

An unpaid group of billionaires, tech executives and some disciples of Peter Thiel, a powerful Republican donor, are preparing to take up unofficial positions in the U.S. government in the name of cost-cutting.

Once Musk and Ramaswamy step into their roles, they'll have to answer for commitments they've made, such as firing employees and deleting departments.

Political leaders in the Mahoning Valley reacted predictably Friday to Gov. Mike DeWine’s appointment of Lt. Gov. Jon Husted to the U.S. Senate. Republicans, such as Mahoning County GOP Chairman Tom McCabe,

Political leaders in the Mahoning Valley reacted predictably Friday to the appointment of Lt. Gov. Jon Husted to the U.S. Senate.

That’s not the only bad money-making idea Republicans are mulling over: they also pitched raising the threshold for government funded free school lunches to save $3 million, taxing tuition scholarships, and cutting Medicaid matching programs, which could potentially cause states to cut benefits and restrict eligibility.

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says Donald Trump is a president-elect who for all of his aggressive talk is afraid to let America compete with the rest of the world, responding instead with tariffs and curtailing immigration.

Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and the Gates Foundation, who is worth $160 billion, has revealed the details of his anticipated three-hour dinner with President-elect Donald Trump. Gates told The Wall Street Journal that the “wide-ranging” conversation,

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If there’s a competing interest between what’s good for Trump’s billionaire buddies and what’s good for you, who do you think will win that fight?