Adjustments on DOGE, tariffs suggest the president isn’t immune to political pressure, despite the scale of his proposals
DOGE has been an incredible success, and now that we have my Cabinet in place, I have instructed the Secretaries and Leadership to work with DOGE on Cost Cutting measures and S
Enten then showed that 54% of those polled said that Elon Musk and DOGE should influence government spending and operations. And, Enten said, when asked if they approve of Trump trying to cut staff at government agencies, 51% of those polled said they did.
Through its lawyer, Jerald Lentini, it is suing President Trump, DOGE and Elon Musk, arguing that, by law, DOGE is a federal advisory committee, and therefore must have balanced membership, keep minutes, hold public meetings, file a charter and meet other legal requirements.
A new court filing cites Trump’s shoutout to Elon Musk in his speech to Congress as evidence that the billionaire is, in fact, running DOGE.
It took just a few seconds, but President Donald Trump's shout-out to Elon Musk during his long-winded and combative address to Congress may torpedo his own government's legal arguments in defense of DOGE,