The Trump administration is claiming that DOGE records are "not subject to FOIA" requests in response to a government watchdog lawsuit.

Summary

Despite Elon Musk’s claims of “maximal transparency,” the Trump administration now argues that records from DOGE are exempt from Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.

A court filing states DOGE, rebranded from the U.S. Digital Service, is a “free-standing component” of the Executive Office of the President and falls under the Presidential Records Act.

Watchdog groups have sued, arguing that DOGE’s activities, which involve sweeping access to federal agencies, must be publicly accessible.

  • glimse@lemmy.world
    111·
    23 hours ago

    Republicans would be out for political blood calling the left “deep state” and other horrifying shit

    And they’d be right. An unelected billionaire gutting the government and hiding their actions is deep state activity

    • kibiz0r@midwest.socialEnglish
      39·
      21 hours ago

      It’s not deep state, it’s a coup.

      In essence, a coup is a 1) rapid seizure of state power by unelected actors, who acquire that power by 2) seizing critical government infrastructure and 3) weaponizing it to neutralize legitimate government actors’ efforts to stop them. The unelected actors then use this power to 4) remake the rules of the political game in a way that cannot easily be checked or undone through democratic processes.

    • DashboTreeFrog@discuss.onlineEnglish
      35·
      22 hours ago

      Deep? Can Musk and DOGE count as deep state with how new they are to government (if you can call DOGE that)? He’s not even from the US, he’s so far out he’s circled back around to deep state.

      Then again, foreign actors blatantly controlling the white house seems to be the trend right now