White House Claims Elon Musk Isn’t Running DOGE After All
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The filing appeared to contradict President Trump’s own words.

Summary

The White House now claims Elon Musk is not leading DOGE, despite Trump previously stating Musk was in charge of the task force cutting $2 trillion in federal spending.

A court filing says Musk is only a senior adviser without formal decision-making authority. However, Musk’s tweets and Trump’s remarks suggest he has been directing DOGE’s activities.

The revelation raises legal concerns, as lawsuits argue DOGE violates the Appointments Clause by bypassing Senate confirmation.

A federal judge is set to rule on an emergency motion against Musk’s involvement.

  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
    34·
    4 days ago

    I suspect one of two things are happening, or maybe a mix of both:

    1. Trump doesn’t like the insinutations that he himself isn’t in control.

    2. Musk’s public image issues are now affecting the bottom lines of his companies.

    These things are direct results of both men being complete imbeciles. Nothing more to see here.

    • FMT99@lemmy.world
      34·
      4 days ago
      1. They are purposefully sowing more confusion. All the chaos being a smokescreen to hide the obvious fact that they have both hands in the public coffers and are grabbing what they can.
    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      4 days ago

      It’s Schrödinger’s control: for the purpose of having executive authority over the project 2025 policy agenda he is in control, except when doing so is illegal in which case he isn’t. The status depends on who’s looking, as it is always exactly the status that evades accountability.