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On the morning of the White House’s first Digital Assets Summit Friday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D.-Mass.) sent a critical letter to David Sacks, the administration’s crypto and AI czar, which she has shared with Axios exclusively. The big picture: The...

Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and 10 Democratic Senators have called on the government accountability office (GAO) to investigate the effects of the recent firing of federal probationary employees on the health and safety of the American public. The letter...

The top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, is asking the CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Meta, and Tesla how they swayed Republicans to pursue bringing back a provision allowing businesses to deduct research and...

Five Democratic senators have asked the Justice Department to investigate whether Elon Musk is leveraging his influence in the Trump administration to bully advertisers into returning to X. The request, from Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Richard Blumenthal, Adam Schiff...

The Senate voted on Wednesday to strip a key financial regulator of its ability to monitor digital platforms like X, as the social media company’s owner, Elon Musk, has become the public face of the government office seeking to shrink...

Lee Dudek, the acting commissioner for the Social Security Administration, is facing questions about his appointment to the role from Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts who serves on the Senate’s Finance Committee. In a March 2 letter...

Two members of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday asked President Donald Trump’s Air Force secretary nominee whether he unfairly favored Elon Musk in a classified, multibillion-dollar spy satellite contract. In a letter sent Thursday, Senators Elizabeth Warren and...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wants to know what happened to 25,000 tweets that a key Donald Trump nominee deleted soon after the 2024 election, and she on Wednesday wrote a letter to X CEO Linda Yaccarino requesting those records. Bill...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and other lawmakers pressed the Education Department on Wednesday to clarify how much access Elon Musk’s team had been granted to student loan borrowers’ sensitive data and what they planned to do with it. In a...

Democratic lawmakers are demanding answers from Elon Musk about whether staffers at his Department of Government Efficiency have shared national security secrets over insecure communication channels. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia were joined by...

A senior Democratic senator on Wednesday urged President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security to take a tough line on China, citing Chinese startup DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence technology. U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of...

Senate Democrats are trying to get Housing Secretary Scott Turner to explain his support for reprivatizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — and how such a change would impact homebuyers. In a letter obtained by NOTUS, ranking member of the...