Congressional negotiations to avert a government shutdown in less than three weeks appear to have reached an impasse as Democrats are suggesting they could withhold their votes in protest of President Donald Trump’s and Elon Musk’s broad spending cuts.

When Bill Clinton came to Washington as president, his Democratic administration used corporate know-how and the new internet to streamline the federal bureaucracy as part of the “Reinventing Government” push.

Elon Musk's order to U.S. government workers to justify their jobs opened divisions in President Donald Trump's administration, as some agencies told workers to respond to the chainsaw-wielding billionaire by Monday night and others said to ignore him.