How A Tiny Federal Agency’s Lawsuit Could Provide The Smoking Gun Against DOGE
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The U.S. African Development Foundation’s standoff with DOGE contradicts the Trump administration’s defenses of Elon Musk’s operation.
The president of the U.S. African Development Foundation, one of the federal government’s smallest agencies, filed a lawsuit against the Department of Government Efficiency on Thursday afternoon after DOGE operatives and other government officials successfully gained access to the foundation’s building and moved to shut it down.
The actions of DOGE and Pete Marocco, a State Department official and DOGE ally, on Thursday followed a days-long standoff with the African Development Foundation after its president, Ward Brehm, refused them access to the building.
DOGE and Marocco deployed U.S. Marshals to force their way into the building on Thursday and began to dismantle the agency, which provides grants and loans to organizations in Africa.
The lawsuit filed by Brehm on behalf of the foundation provides the clearest details about how DOGE operates, including evidence that it is exercising powers far beyond its mandate or what is legally or constitutionally permitted. What Brehm details about how DOGE aimed to dismantle both his agency and the Inter-American Foundation may help other plaintiffs challenging the constitutionality and legality of billionaire Elon Musk’s appointment to lead DOGE and its actions across the federal government.
It may also be the lawsuit with the highest likelihood of a judge granting a temporary order restraining Musk and DOGE, as the facts presented match what a judge in another case against Musk and DOGE said plaintiffs lacked.
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