A Look At All The Lawsuits Coming For DOGE
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Eight have been filed so far, with more on the way.
The so-called Department of Government Efficiency, a “temporary organization” President Donald Trump created by renaming the U.S. Digital Service, has entrusted some of the nation’s most sensitive data to six inexperienced and unvetted young men who operate at the whims of Elon Musk.
That includes the U.S. Treasury Department’s payment system, where a 25-year-old Musk aide named Marko Elez reportedly had administrator-level access to systems that paid out $5.45 trillion in fiscal year 2024.
(Elez resigned Thursday after The Wall Street Journal asked about social media posts he made that advocated for eugenics and promoted racism. Musk has pledged to rehire him.)
DOGE has also perched similarly inexperienced employees (one is 19 years old) atop the Department of Labor and the Education Department, having already gained access to classified material at the U.S. Agency for International Development before abruptly shutting it down (perhaps illegally).
There have been reports of similar chaos at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a target of Project 2025, and the Department of Commerce.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt outlined the president's latest thoughts on relocating 2 million Palestinians, despite opposition from leaders of Arab nations.
The White House press secretary told a bald-faced lie about the separation of powers.
The Kansas City Chiefs star hoped to make history Sunday by winning a third consecutive Super Bowl, only for the Philadelphia Eagles to win 40-22.
Green lied that the internal government investigators Trump fired had “overseen” the entire national debt.
The president is firing watchdogs, pardoning corrupt officials and making lots of money from $TRUMP.
County officials in Springfield, Illinois, have agreed to pay the family of Sonya Massey, who was shot and killed in her home last summer by a sheriff’s deputy responding to her call for help.
“By and large, we have been a country who has understood that the rule of law has helped us maintain our democracy,” the U.S. Supreme Court justice said.
The president effectively signed over more power to Musk in an executive order Tuesday.
The Tesla mogul's 4-year-old son was seen on camera with a finger in his nose that he later wiped on Trump's desk.
The $238 billion federal agency "is going to potentially be dissolved in the coming days,” warned Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.).
The White House fired the inspector general for the U.S. Agency for International Development on Tuesday.
The cost of renaming the base just a few years ago totaled around $8 million.
“I’ve lost count of the number of investigations that are underway with Tesla,” said a former safety adviser at the NHTSA. “They will all be gone.”