Democrats Tackle DOGE with Legal Action Following Election Loss
The Department of Government Efficiency led by Elon Musk is stirring outrage among Democrats and the Washington establishment, who are frantically attempting to bog down DOGE’s “disrupt-and-accelerate” ethos with legal challenges and resistance.
However, the pursuit of exposing government inefficiencies and projects that are clearly against public interest must continue unabated.
President Trump, alongside his ally Musk, should continue to escalate this disruption, bringing transparency to obscure financial dealings.
On Friday, the leftist “consumer advocacy” group Public Citizen collaborated with the University of California student government to file a lawsuit aimed at preventing DOGE from accessing Education Department data, citing alleged privacy issues despite its lawful operations through the renamed US Digital Service.
Moreover, a lawsuit spearheaded by formidable unions—including the notoriously progressive SEIU—has effectively obstructed DOGE’s access to Labor Department data.
The same coalition, including significant labor organizations like the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and the American Federation of Government Employees, is litigating against DOGE’s rights to obtain payment and related information from the US Treasury.
Federal Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly has imposed strict and significant limitations on that access as well, but she is a staunch ideologue, notorious for her callousness, notably when she remarked that a sick, elderly woman she had sentenced to years in prison over an abortion-clinic protest could potentially die behind bars (ha, ha?).
In Boston, another federal judge has paused the DOGE-led buyout deadline for federal employees until at least Monday due to yet another lawsuit involving plaintiffs like the AFGE, AFSCME, and the National Association of Government Employees.
Nevertheless, reports indicate that around 60,000 union members have already consented to the buyout: Blocking it puts unions in direct conflict with these workers’ interests.
We’re still less than a month into Trump’s second round, so this is merely a glimpse of what’s to come.
Will it, as speculated, become the Education Department that faces scrutiny next week?
Unions such as SEIU, AFGE, AFSCME, and NAGE are clearly not acting in the public’s best interest.
Their leadership understands that any form of transparency regarding how federal funds are utilized poses a risk to the comfortable, fiefdom-like lifestyles enjoyed by federal workers and jeopardizes the progressive agendas that rationalize these comforts.
Thus, they are now expressing outrage and fighting fiercely to avoid being held to the same accountability as private-sector employees, waging a legal battle in the courts for a fight they lost at the ballot box.
This behavior is standard operating procedure for modern Democrats, by the way: Lose an election?
Take it to court!
DOGE was a significant part of Trump’s platform.
The public has voiced its opinions on this matter.
Thus, this legal maneuvering represents the most grotesque merging of interests imaginable.
It aims to shield a privileged class of workers while keeping Americans oblivious to the millions being squandered on things like . . . Politico subscriptions and promoting DEI in developing nations.
Indeed, Team Trump may be taking a somewhat indiscriminate approach to certain areas of cutting, for instance, almost eliminating USAID.
Yet the overarching aim is undeniably justified: Americans are entitled to complete insight into all federal expenditures aside from those of utmost national security concern.
And USAID spending certainly does not qualify for classification, no matter how much the bureaucracy wishes it did.
Musk & Co. might need to adjust their tactics to succeed in court.
Indeed, the rulings thus far imply that there will be more overtly political rulings against DOGE in the future.
On the other hand, the legal opposition gets to select the initial venues for its cases against DOGE; the legal environment will likely become much more favorable once these cases reach the Supreme Court—establishing precedents that will facilitate the extensive waste-reduction still needed.
In conclusion: The entire Trump administration must continue to illuminate the shadows while telling the bureaucratic elite to take a hike until the American people truly understand what their government is doing.
