Commerce Department employees caught up in a legal battle over their mass firings are now learning that their health care coverage was cut off weeks ago, even though they were paying their premiums.

Billionaire Elon Musk’s team yesterday took control of the Treasury’s payment system, thus essentially gaining access to the checkbook with which the United States handles about $6 trillion annually a...

After The Great Recession, the government set up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — an independent bureau to protect the consumer from abuses by financial institutions and companies. Now there is talk from Elon Musk about dismantling it in the upcoming Trump administration. Rohit Chopra, the director of the CFPB, joins Ali Velshi to explain why the bureau is so important to the American consumer. “When people come to the CFPB, we require those companies to respond, and every single day, problems get fixed…we can't really have a system where people are getting ripped off with impunity and no one is taking any action at all.”

This is how we say goodbye

The second Trump administration appears likely to inherit broader powers to force American service providers to help a warrantless wiretapping program.