Elon Musk’s role leading DOGE qualifies as ‘continuing and permanent,’ federal judge says

[Anonymous]

Time for Elon Musk to be held responsibility for his poorly executed and unfeeling actions.

In its bid to have a lawsuit against Elon Musk, the Department of Government Efficiency and President Donald Trump dismissed, the White House had “unsuccessfully” tried to define Musk’s role in the federal government as temporary, a district court judge in Washington, D.C., said in an order out Tuesday.

A group of 14 states, led by New Mexico, had sued Musk, DOGE and Trump in February for allegedly violating the Constitution. The states’ attorneys general argued that Musk lacked the legal authority to make sweeping cuts and other changes to the federal government because he is not a Senate-confirmed officer of the government, and DOGE was never authorized by Congress.

Attorneys for the White House, in a motion they filed hoping to have the case dismissed, characterized Musk as holding an advisory and temporary job in the Trump administration only.

The judge in the federal court, Tanya Chutkan, found that Musk’s reach extendS throughout the executive branch without any known limits, even though the White House had tried to “minimize Musk’s role, framing him as a mere advisor without any formal authority.”

Judge Chutkan wrote that the 14 states made a credible argument that the tech billionaire and Trump megadonor now “occupies a continuing position” and “exercises significant authority,” all without “proper appointment” by Congress.

She also wrote that the states’ allegations that DOGE had gained “unauthorized access” to “private and proprietary information” were “sufficient to allege an injury,” and that the case can move forward.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, and even Musk is realizing now that his actions to support "cost-cutting" were useless, since Trump just ballooned the deficit again with his bill that everyone hates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, and even Musk is realizing now that his actions to support "cost-cutting" were useless, since Trump just ballooned the deficit again with his bill that everyone hates.

Proving DOGE was pointless. Their careers should crash like Elon's latest rocket.

[Anonymous]

I love this for him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love this for him.

I love this for me.

[Anonymous]

The guy is a great American hero for exposing the massive waste and fraud in the government.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The guy is a great American hero for exposing the massive waste and fraud in the government.

Indeed--the great waste to the American taxpayer is DOGE itself. A bunch of unqualified, careless misfits whose quick and superficial conclusions will harm the quality of basic federal services for decades to come.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The guy is a great American hero for exposing the massive waste and fraud in the government.

it was already exposed. Read OIG and GAO reports... Just because you are too lazy and dumb to research publicly available information doesn't mean fraud was not identified. Congress (both republicans and democrats) had access to all this information. If you ever bothered to watch a congressional hearing, you would see that congress (both sides) often cited GAO or OIG reports. So they knew of any fraud, waste and abuse. they hold the purse strings and the authority to hold agencies accountable and chose to only TALK and NOT take action.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The guy is a great American hero for exposing the massive waste and fraud in the government.

lol.

Still boycotting everything he touches forever and ever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The guy is a great American hero for exposing the massive waste and fraud in the government.

Indeed--the great waste to the American taxpayer is DOGE itself. A bunch of unqualified, careless misfits whose quick and superficial conclusions will harm the quality of basic federal services for decades to come.

He’s being replaced by the project 2025 guy, Voight, so it’s still pretty awful, but we can work on him and his merry band of a$$holes too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The guy is a great American hero for exposing the massive waste and fraud in the government.

So you just.... Believe what Elon or Trump says? Without verifying it? Even though they added most of it back? Even though they barely touched the area of the most massive waste and fraud (military spending) while ranting about specks of dust (and added most of the specks of dust back)?

You probably believed Haitians were eating pets, didn't you?

[Anonymous]

I thought Elon was stepping down to try and milk more money for his companies out of liberals.

[Anonymous]

they got into a little fight

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:they got into a little fight

Elon dared to criticize Trump Big Brutal Budget!
No more sleepovers!
No more Hagen daas!

[Anonymous]

Let's hope his "continuing and permanent" status comes with legal liability.