Legal Hurdles Loom in Fight Against Musk’s DOGE: The Brief

A RECENT Fourth Circuit ruling highlights the difficult task facing challengers to Elon Musk’s unprecedented slash-and-burn method of shrinking the federal government: showing Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency are in control of what’s happening and not just advising otherwise empowered officials, Robert Iafolla reports.

• Musk and DOGE have been at the forefront of the Trump administration’s drive to radically downsize the federal government by firing thousands of workers, canceling billions of dollars in contracts, and attempting to shutter entire agencies like the US Agency for International Development. But DOGE is also a unique, amorphous operation that the administration ...