President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency is doing the inflation reduction Congress has refused to tackle for decades.
More than a dozen judges in the last month have issued near-immediate restraining orders banning President Trump from acting as the nation’s chief executive. A large number of these judicial orders strike actions from Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a cost-cutting initiative led by fellow tycoon Elon Musk.
The administration may not temporarily freeze discretionary U.S. taxpayer funds to ensure all payments comply with the policies that Americans elected Trump to enact, judges have ruled. It may not put federal employees on leave for insubordination or buy out their contracts to save Americans money, other judges ruled.
Fourteen Democrat state attorneys general sued Trump, Musk, and DOGE on Feb. 13, alleging that the president choosing his own subordinates and aides is unconstitutional. Their hilariously overwrought language shows Musk and Trump are joyously bouncing around inside Democrats’ mental OODA loops:
In recent weeks, Defendant Elon Musk, with President Donald J. Trump’s approval, has roamed through the federal government unraveling agencies, accessing sensitive data, and causing mass chaos and confusion for state and local governments, federal employees, and the American people.
I am one of the American people, and I live out in the hinterlands known as the Midwest. I can assure you that “the American people” are not in “mass chaos and confusion.” Neither are our state and local governments. The mail is coming on time. The road crews are keeping that winter sleet driveable so we can attend work and school. The grocery stores are stocked. I walk my neighborhood every day, and there’s no “chaos” except the unhealthy and nauseating smell of secondhand illegal weed. […]
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