Final week, Musk posted that he was “again to spending 24/7 at work and sleeping in convention/server/manufacturing unit rooms.”
Lawsuits in opposition to Musk, DOGE proceed
Musk and the Trump administration are dealing with quite a few lawsuits over the authority wielded by DOGE and the big spending cuts imposed by the brand new authorities entity. In a single case filed by 14 states in opposition to Musk, DOGE, and Trump, a federal decide dismissed President Trump from the lawsuit on Tuesday however mentioned the lawsuit can proceed in opposition to Musk and DOGE.
“States allege that President Trump is the one particular person within the Government Department who resolves issues of higher significance than Musk,” US Decide Tanya Chutkan of the District of Columbia wrote. “They declare that Musk decides the continued existence of federal businesses, the employment phrases for tens of millions of federal workers, and federal funds allotted by grants, contracts, and loans.”
The defendants “unsuccessfully try to reduce Musk’s function, framing him as a mere advisor with none formal authority,” Chutkan wrote. She disputed the federal government’s characterization of particular authorities workers, saying that particular workers could qualify as officers below US legislation.
“Defendants could not circumvent the Appointments Clause by designating people as particular authorities workers,” Chutkan wrote, concluding that “defendants seem to sanction limitless Government energy, free from checks and balances, however the Structure prohibits unilateral management over ‘official appointments’ by ‘dividing the facility to nominate the principal federal places of work… between the Government and Legislative Branches.'”
It seems probably that DOGE will proceed exercising its energy within the Trump administration indefinitely, the decide’s ruling mentioned. “States allege that Musk is DOGE’s chief,” Chutkan wrote. “The court docket finds that States have sufficiently pleaded that this place qualifies as ‘persevering with and everlasting, not occasional or non permanent,’ The subsidiary DOGE Service Short-term Group has a termination date of July 4, 2026, however there isn’t a termination date for the overarching DOGE entity or its chief, suggesting permanence.”
