Musk's DOGE Cuts, Legality Questioned

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But is it legal? Musk’s DOGE is stripping agencies before judges can rule.

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Elon Musk and his team have spent the first three weeks of President Donald Trump ’s new administration turning Washington upside down.

The Department of Government Efficiency wants to find $2 trillion in savings by ferreting out waste, shutting down agencies, selling off real estate, and laying off a huge chunk of the government workforce.

But is it legal for this brand-new entity, within the executive office of the President, to do all that on its own?.

DOGE employees have also been reviewing operations at the Department of Education .

Critics have questioned the legality of such actions and warned of security issues.

Civil service law has provisions that protect career federal employees from political interference.

The judicial branch could emerge, as it did in the first Trump administration, as a potent check on executive branch.

Mr. Trump was “testing his authority,” Senator Cramer said in late January . While he supports reviewing and reevaluating government spending, he added it would be a “major test of separation of powers.”.

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