The liberal meltdown about President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) continues.
Previously, 26 current and former USAID employees and contractors brought forward a lawsuit against Elon Musk, who spearheads DOGE, claiming that he is violating the U.S. Constitution. This came after DOGE slashes USAID and unveiled all kinds of ways the agency wasted tax dollars.
Now, DOGE is at the epicenter of another lawsuit.
Fourteen states have filed a federal lawsuit against Trump and Musk over DOGE. Reportedly, the states accuse Musk of being a "designated agent of chaos" whose "sweeping authority" violates the U.S. Constitution.
"Musk's seemingly limitless and unchecked power to strip the government of its workforce and eliminate entire departments with the stroke of a pen, or a click of a mouse, would have been shocking to those who won this country's independence," reads the complaint, which was filed Thursday in federal court in Washington, D.C., according to ABC News.
The lawsuit is led by New Mexico.
"There is no greater threat to democracy than the accumulation of state power in the hands of a single, unelected individual," the lawsuit filed by New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez and officials from Arizona, Michigan, Maryland, Minnesota, California, Nevada, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii says.
"Although our constitutional system was designed to prevent the abuses of an 18th century monarch, the instruments of unchecked power are no less dangerous in the hands of a 21st century tech baron,” it continues. "[T]he President does not have the constitutional authority to unilaterally dismantle the government. Nor could he delegate such expansive authority to an unelected, unconfirmed individual."
Two of the 14 states are led by Republican governors (via ABC News):
The suit filed by the 14 states says the Constitution blocks the president from overriding "existing laws concerning the structure of the Executive Branch and federal spending." As a result, the suit says, the commander-in-chief from is forbidden from creating -- or even "extinguishing" -- federal agencies, and from "slashing federal programs or offering lengthy severance packages as a means of radically winnowing the federal workforce," in a nod to the Trump administration's "deferred retirement" offer to government employees.
"Musk is far more than an adviser to the White House," the lawsuit says. "He executes the President's agenda by exercising virtually unchecked power across the entire Executive branch, making decisions about expenditures, contracts, government property, regulations, and the very existence of federal agencies."
