Asked about the constitutionality of DOGE’s role during a White House meeting with Emanuel Macron on Monday, Trump fired back that DOGE “has nothing to do with the Constitution.”.
Donald Trump’s administration doesn’t know, or won’t say, even in a courtroom when confronted by a judge, who is running the so-called U.S. DOGE Service, which Elon Musk and his team of engineers are using to wreak havoc across federal agencies.
The next day, when a reporter asked White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt who, then, exactly, is the administrator for DOGE, she called him a “special government employee within the executive office of the president, and the agencies are directing the cuts and … the wasteful spending.”.
Last week, a judge in a separate case noted that DOGE is trying to “escape” the “obligations that accompany agencyhood” — including being subject to the Freedom of Information Act, the Privacy Act and the Administrative Procedures Act — “while reaping only its benefits.”.
That same day, Trump himself appeared to contradict Leavitt and his own administration’s sworn statement when he stated: “I signed an order creating the Department of Government Efficiency, and put a man named Elon Musk in charge.”.
