President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Social Security Administration on Tuesday billed himself as an “efficiency guy” and said he’s given no thought to privatizing the agency, which has become a prime target of Elon Musk’s dramatic cost-cutting crusade.

Advocates for retirees and the disabled say privatizing the agency could result in reduced benefit payments to millions of Americans.

U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee to oversee the Social Security Administration said on Tuesday he would review the agency's computer systems after aides to tech billionaire Elon Musk were given access to SSA's massive databases.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that would seek to cut federal grants to states who don’t adopt tougher standards for voter registration, the latest Republican step in the political fight over access to the voter rolls.

U.S. citizens are already not allowed to vote in federal elections. But under the order, the national mail voter registration form will require that applicants provide either a U.S. passport, a REAL ID driver's license or state-issued card compliant with REAL standards,

Trump has long questioned the U.S. electoral system and continues to falsely claim that his 2020 loss to Democratic President Joe Biden was the result of widespread fraud. The pre