President Donald Trump had said the Pentagon would be an early target of Musk's DOGE, which has swept through federal agencies searching for spending cuts as part of Trump's overhaul and shrinking of the U.

Donald Trump told reporters on Thursday that he wants to organize a summit with Russian President Putin and Chinese President Xi and suggested that the three great powers agree to stop building nuclear weapons and cut their defense spending "in half.

Donald Trump says he wants an audit of the Department of Defense’s finances — and he’s sending a billionaire defense contractor?

The Pentagon said on Friday it would start firing about 5,400 civilian employees who were on probation, the first moves by President Donald Trump's administration at the department to make good on its promise to reduce the federal workforce.

Democrat lawmakers and former national security leaders are furious over President Trump’s Friday night massacre of top Pentagon leadership, which they warned was a dangerous polarization of the

While flying back to Washington aboard Air Force One on Wednesday night, a reporter asked President Donald Trump whether Elon Musk would pursue budget cuts at the Pentagon. His response might be confusing to anyone who hasn’t spent the last several days monitoring Musk’s account on X.

President Donald Trump on Friday fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force General C.Q. Brown, and pushed out five other admirals and generals in an unprecedented shake-up of U.S. military leadership.

President removes CQ Brown and other senior leaders who he blames for pushing diversity, equity and inclusion policies