The first lawsuit to challenge billionaire Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) was expected to be filed in federal court Monday within hours after President Trump was sworn into office.
A 30-page complaint obtained by Fox Business ahead of its filing accuses DOGE of violating certain public disclosure requirements in federal law. The lawsuit, filed by the public interest law firm National Security Counselors, was first reported by the Washington Post.
Trump tasked Musk and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy with leading DOGE on a quest to identify government waste, fraud and abuse and advise the White House on how to cut spending. Musk has set an ambitious goal of $2 trillion in spending cuts for his nongovernmental agency, which has staffed up at the offices of his company SpaceX in D.C. and reportedly held preliminary meetings with representatives from dozens of federal agencies to root out waste, according to the outlet.
But DOGE was not …