Elon Musk has vowed to spend “significantly” less time working for Donald Trump’s administration and focus on Tesla after profits plummeted to a five-year low.

The electric car company’s net income slumped by 71pc to $409m in the three months to the end of March, marking its least profitable quarter since 2020.

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore all jobs and funding for the Voice of America and other US-backed news outlets, ruling that efforts to dismantle it violated the law and Constitution.

Over 1,300 VOA employees, including about 1,000 journalists, were placed on leave following President Donald Trump's order. The White House has accused the broadcaster of being "anti-Trump" and "radical".

VOA, still primarily a radio service, was set up during World War II to counter Nazi propaganda, and has become a major global media broadcaster.

The Environmental Protection Agency continued its staffing shake-up Monday, beginning the termination of hundreds of staffers through a "reduction in force" process as it moved other workers to new roles.

Last month, the agency announced a massive rollback of environmental regulations, including key tenets of the Clean Air Act, and Administrator Lee Zeldin promised to drive “a dagger through the heart of climate-change religion."

The Department of Government Efficiency effectively shut down a small agency that coordinates homelessness policy, leaving all staff on administrative leave. The shutdown followed a Trump administration executive order.

The agency had a budget of just over $4 million and focused on managing high homelessness rates, especially among veterans.

Jeff Olivet, the agency’s last executive director, stated that the government created the agency to coordinate federal efforts to reduce homelessness efficiently.

President Trump’s firing spree of independent agency leaders is running into a 90-year-old Supreme Court case that judges have used to block many of those ousters.

Now Mr. Trump’s allies are looking to the Supreme Court to overturn the case, or at least carve out new exceptions to justify the president’s house cleaning.

Federal staff cuts will cripple the effectiveness of state-run utility bill assistance programs, advocates warn, and should be resolved congressionally. 

Budget and staffing cuts under President Donald Trump's administration are undermining global efforts to monitor the climate and produce accurate weather forecasts, warns the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).

The quality and quantity of climate observations available to scientists worldwide supplied by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has already suffered a measurable decline, according to ECMWF Director General Florence Rabier.

The Trump administration could cut nearly 50 percent of the State Department’s funding next fiscal year, according to an internal memo laying out a downsizing plan being given serious consideration by department leaders, said two U.S. officials. The plan was drawn up as the White House pressures agencies to make significant budget cuts.

An internal White House memo proposes cutting the budgets of the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) by nearly half in fiscal 2026, according to new reporting from The Washington Post.

The early proposal for the fiscal 2026 budget would allocate $28.4 billion for State and USAID — down $27 billion, or approximately 48 percent, from the $54.4 billion in the 2025 budget, according to the Post.

President Donald Trump's administration is weighing a dramatic reduction in foreign affairs funding, with a proposal to slash the combined budgets of the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development by nearly half in fiscal 2026, according to an internal memo reviewed by The Washington Post, The Hill reported.