Thursday, March 13, 2025

US Judge Orders DOGE, Musk to Produce Cost-Cutting Records

March 13 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge has ordered Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency to turn over a variety of records and answer questions describing their efforts to slash federal spending.

Wednesday night's decision by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington, D.C., came in a lawsuit by 14 Democratic state attorneys general against Musk, DOGE and Republican President Donald Trump.

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I wonder if Special K user Leon would give the Judge a Nazi salute in the Court?

btw... did you notice how Zelenskyy not wearing a suit was a big deal, but Herr Musk in a stupid meme cap, a Tech Support tshirt, and baggy pants with his snotty-nosed kid isn't a big deal.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-03-13 06:08 PM

What?

Isn't Musk's word good enough?

Liberals always need proof.

If it wasn't for liberals we could have that bastard, Hunter Biden, locked up for his role in ... something?

What was it he's accused of again?

I'm not too sure that was ever made clear.

Damn liberals!

#2 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-03-13 06:12 PM

US Judge Orders DOGE, Musk to Produce Cost-Cutting Records

"Unfortunately I cannot comply because I am under audit."
-Morbidly Obese Pathologically Lying Bag of Orange Pus

#3 | Posted by censored at 2025-03-13 06:20 PM

Oh, this could get interesting.

For example, an article I read earlier today ...

DOGE Makes Its Flubs Harder to Find. So Much for "Transparency"
www.vanityfair.com

... Elon Musk said last month that his Department of Government Efficiency was publishing cuts to federal spending online in an effort to be "maximally transparent." So much for all that.

Just one month later, the New York Times reports, DOGE has overhauled the way it reports supposed savings to make those cuts a lot harder to track"and makes mistakes a lot harder to find.

And there are apparently many. In the weeks since the DOGE "wall of receipts" launched, it has been riddled with errors. The group has claimed credit for purging contracts that ended decades ago and confused an $8 million ICE contract for an $8 billion contract, among other flubs. DOGE previously responded to the Times' reporting by simply deleting the claims, including five of the biggest purported savings.

Now, DOGE is no longer reporting exactly which programs are getting the axe.

Instead, the Times reported, earlier this month, the group claimed another $10 billion in savings from the elimination of 3,489 federal grants, without specifying which grants it was referring to. When the Times discovered federal identification numbers embedded in the website's source code and used that to identify some grants, DOGE reportedly deleted those too. ...



#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-13 06:43 PM

@#2 ... What?

Isn't Musk's word good enough? ...

Apparently, the evidence seems to provide an answer to your question. ...

A resounding, No


#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-13 06:45 PM

If documentation is so difficult to acquire, couldn't the judge draw an adverse inference and make a ruling anyway? Also, considering the lack of cooperation, could the judge appoint a "monitor" to oversee what DOGE is doing?

#6 | Posted by FedUpWithPols at 2025-03-14 08:19 AM

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