Danielle Alberti

Of all the things you might use Venmo for — buying drinks, splitting a check with friends, repaying a loan — there's a good chance you've never had "sending the government a gift to help pay the public debt" on your list. But you can, if you really, really want. The big picture: Axios' calculations suggest it'd be almost impossible for your personal donation to actually make a hole in the debt, even if you were feeling really generous.

President Trump suggested he could cancel billions of dollars of government contracts with Elon Musk's companies. Photo: Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images The two most powerful people in the U.S. have gone from friends to foes. Why it matters: Elon Musk and President Trump's (very) public online feud imperils billions of dollars in government contracts for Musk as the former DOGE head continues to go scorched earth against the president.