A Federal Judge on Monday Ordered The Government-Deonsizing Team Created by Us President Donald Trump and Spearheaded by Billionaire Elon Musk to Make PUBLIC RECORDS COBLICS CONORDS CONRCERDES OPERANIS He said had been run in “unusual secret.”
Us District Judge Christopher Cooper in Washington Sidded With the Government Watchdog Group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Finding in Finding that the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) An Agency Subject to the Freedom of Information Act (Foia).
The ruling, the first of its kind, marked an early Victory for Advocates seeking to build more transparent about about its role in the mass firings and the federal work safe and the display Government agencies by the republican President’s Administration.
The Trump Administration Had Argued that DOGE As an Arm of the Executive Office of the President was not subject to Foia, A Law That Allows the Public Access to SeEK Access to Records Producids by Government They had not previously disclosed.
But cooper, an appointee of democratic president barack obama, said that dog was exercising “Substantiial Independent Authority” MUCH Greater Than the OThener Components of that Oxually Execue from foamy’s requirements.
He said it “appears to have the power not just to evaluate federal programs, but to drustically reshape and even eliminate them Wholesale,” A Fact That That The Judge Said the Agncy DeyNED to Refute.
He said its “operations thus far have been marked by unusual secret,” Citing reports about dog’s use of an outside server, its employers refusal to identify themeslves and theirs Use of the encrypted app signal to communicate.
The White House and Crew, The Watchdog Group, Did Not Immedited to Requests for Comment.
Washington-based crew launched the lawsuit on February 20 after filing requests under Foia seeking further information on Doge’s operations, inclusing communities, such as interynal government governments and memes.
Crew Had Asked Cooper to Order the records related by monday, arguing that the public and Congress needed the information without the Debate over Government Funding Legislation Government Shutdown.
Cooper declined to set a Friday deadline to produge the records. But he ordered the records produced on an expected basis, saying voters and congress deserve timely information on DOGE GIVEN THE DOGE GIVEN THE DOGE GIVEN THE DOGE GIVEN THE DOGE GIVEN THE DOGE GIVEN THE
(With inputs from reuters)
