The White House has said that Musk is a special government employee, meaning that he is not beholden to the same kinds of rules as other federal workers.
Current and former employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), claiming that Musk should have been first confirmed by the Senate.
The White House has stated that Musk is a special government employee, meaning that he is not beholden to the same kinds of rules as other federal workers. Early on in his administration, President Donald Trump established DOGE to root out government fraud and waste. Since then, the department has helped to put a halt to numerous programs and departments, including USAID.
In a lawsuit filed on Feb. 13 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, the USAID workers wrote: “In his government role, Defendant Musk exercises an extraordinary amount of power. Indeed, the scope and reach of his executive authority appears unprecedented in U.S. history.”
They then laid out how they believe Musk and DOGE are operating within the federal government, saying that Musk relies on information posted on his social media platform X to “identify a federal program target” before allegedly attempting to install his team within an agency or agencies, trying to gain access to their operating systems and networks, and taking other alleged actions.
Musk and DOGE were then accused of trying to dismantle an agency “from within by severely disrupting or crippling operations” while posting about their actions on X.
Lawyers for the USAID workers, who remained anonymous in the lawsuit, then deployed a novel argument, saying Musk should be confirmed by the Senate because he should be deemed an officer of the United States under the U.S. Constitution’s appropriations clause.
Dear anti-DOGE lawyers: I wish you good luck with your cowardly tactic of attacking anonymously. You'll be found out and, if this administration decides to play as dirty as the left usually does, you'll be doxxed and, per Rachel Zegler's wish, "never know peace."
I don't see this or the other attempts to limit the constitutional powers of the President through the courts being successful, although the Supreme Court may have to step up to the plate and put an end to this nonsense.
ReplyDeleteStill, these criminals have been exposed, so let's see if the sheep have had enough.