DOGE isn’t dead, both President Donald Trump and Elon Musk assured last week as Musk said goodbye to the Trump administration. But the already dicey effort Musk led could soon become even more so.

WASHINGTON—Elon Musk is gone, and the next act of streamlining government is now set to play out on Capitol Hill, with public media and foreign aid the first to be targeted.The White House sent Congress a $9.

Bobby Kogan, senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, said in an emailed statement that the Trump administration was already “illegally impounding additional funds,” as withholding money has “always been illegal without explicit Congressional approval.”