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Trump Immediately Hit with Lawsuit Over Elon Musk's DOGE

At 12:01 PM on Inauguration Day, Trump was hit with a lawsuit alleging that "DOGE" is illegal. DOGE is a secret Trump operation run by Elon Musk.

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Sarah Jones & Jason Easley
Jan 20, 2025
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Wasting absolutely zero time, at 12:01 pm on Inauguration Day a coalition of advocacy groups sued to challenge the legality of Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) under the Federal Advisory Committee Act.

The coalition filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) under the Federal Advisory Committee Act.

To run this supposedly non-official “efficiency” “department” that is not actually a department (yes, the gaslighting has started already, but so has the resistance my friends) that is tasked with rather critical things like deciding where to make cuts in the budget, Trump appointed the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, and Vivek Ramaswamy, who is reportedly leaving DOGE to run for Governor of Ohio.

They point out in a press release sent to The Daily Sarah Jones that DOGE is “not a department of the United Stat…

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