The Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) For another week, defeating hundreds of millions of expenditures by the federal government, while they avoid various legal attempts to block its cost -saving efforts.
Here are some of Doge’s big wins this week:
1. Judge is in charge to stop federal employees
On Thursday, the American district judge Christopher Cooper, an Obama -has shot a request from various federal workers, including the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), to pause the mass dismissals of federal employees by the Trump administration.
NTEU and four other trade unions representing federal employees have filed a complaint on 12 February with challenging the dismissal of probation employees and the deferred dismissal program, which gives employees the option to coordinate from an office or to resign.
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The Doge van Elon Musk claimed the victory in different battles this week. (Getty)
Cooper refused the request to stop the dismissals and said that the court was missing jurisdiction about the claims of the trade unions.
Instead, Cooper ruled that the trade unions should pursue their challenges by the federal service Labor control relationships Statute, which provides for administrative assessment by the Federal Labor Relations Authority.
2. Judge says that Doge can continue to dig
DOGE was given a different victory by the American district judge Tanya S. Chutkan, who denied a request to issue a temporarily limiting order that Musk and Doge do not have access department Health and Human Services, Department of Energy, Department of Transportation and Department of Commerce.
The agencies asked Chutkan to ban both Musk and doge of ending, leave or giving up one of their employees.
Chutkin ruled that Doge can continue to work as it is now.
The judge has also issued a court letter schedule for claimants and defendants to submit motions for discovery, provisional orders and dismissal, which extends until 22 April.
The White House outlined on Wednesday where the Elon Musk-guided Department of Government Efficiency Dividend Checks could go after President Donald Trump had the idea of ​​giving back 20% of the savings to Americans. (Musk: Reuters / Money: Istock / Trump: Getty)
3. Judge offers doge access to data about 3 federal agencies
Doge scored a victory before the court after a federal court refused a request to temporarily block the government efficiency team of Elon Musk to gain access to sensitive data from at least three federal agencies.
Trade unions and non -profit organizations tried to prevent Musk’s doe access to records in the Labor, Health and Human Services departments and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
The efforts were blocked by district judge John Bates, who wrote in an opinion that the government was probably correct in categorizing Doge as an agency, allowing its staff to describe to other government services.
Musk praised the decision about X with the caption: “LFG”, an abbreviation for “Let’s (Expletive) Go.”
Defense Secretary Hegseeth works together with Doge to cut the ‘BS’
4. Doge finds an almost non -traceable budget control item that is responsible for $ 4.7 T in payments
Earlier this week, DOGE announced that it had discovered an identification code that linked American treasury payments to a budget line item, which is good for almost $ 4.7 trillion in payments, which was often emptied.
Elon Musk listens while President Donald Trump speaks with reporters in the Oval Office in the White House on 11 February 2025, in Washington. (Alex Brandon)
“The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is an identification code that links a Treasury payment to a budget control item (standard financial process),” Dog wrote in a message about X.
“In the federal government, the bag -field was optional for ~ $ 4.7 trillion of payments and was often left empty, making traceability almost impossible. From Saturday this is now a required field, which increases insight into where money is increased actually goes. “
The agency thanked the American treasury for his work in identifying the optional field.
According to the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, which is under the treasury, TAS codes are used to describe one of the account identification codes assigned by the Treasury and are also called the “account”.
5. Caesars Palace, MLB Stadium, an ice cream truck: Doge reveals how schools have spent billions on Covid Relief Funds
Schools spent hundreds of billions of COVID help funds that had “little” impact on students, such as hotel rooms in Las Vegas and the purchase of an ice wagon, according to the cost-saving department of the Trump administration.
Doge reveals how Covid help funds are spent by schools. (Getty Images)
On Thursday, DOGE revealed that schools spent nearly $ 200 billion on COVID help funds “with little supervision or impact on students.”
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Granite Public Schools in Utah Spent Covid Relief Funds On $ 86,000 in Hotel Rooms at Caesars Palace, A Ritzy Las Vegas Casino, While Santa Ana Unified Spent $ 393.000 to Rent a Major League Baseball Stadium and Shareding By Deforing BY DEPORTS .
The cost -saving department also revealed that schools $ 60,000 spends on Covid Relief Funds on swimming pool passes, while a district in California used its money to buy an ice wagon.
6. Hegseeth works with Doge to cut the ‘BS’
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseeth works together with Doge to make cuts in his department and says he believes that wasting will find “not the core of our mission”.
The US Minister of Defense Pete Hegseeth provides a press statement after a meeting at the Ministry of Defense. (Omar Marques)
“They are here, and we welcome them,” said Hegseeth in a recent video released on Thursday. “They will of course have broad access with all the guarantees for classification.
“They only give it, like us, to find the fired and to identify the last remains of Biden priorities – the Dei, the Woke, The Climate Change BS, that’s not the core of our mission, and we’ll be there all come from. “
Hegseeth, who said that many doge employees are veterans, met the Musk team and said they have already started their assessment of the Ministry of Defense.
7. Doge discovers more than 4 million government credit cards responsible for 90 million transactions
DOGE revealed on Tuesday that the US government has more than 4 million active credit cards on its books.
“The US government currently has ~ 4.6 million active credit cards/accounts, which processed ~ 90m unique transactions for ~ $ 40 billion expenditure (ING) in FY24,” said Doge in a post on X.
President-Elect Donald Trump greeted Elon Musk while he arrives to attend a viewing of the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship Rocket Rocket November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas (Brandon Bell)
The cost -saving department broke several federal agencies and their credit card use, where the DOD led for the road in both the number of transactions, around 27.2 million, and the number of individual accounts, around 2.4 million.
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Musk gave a speech for conservatives on Thursday in which he praised the performance of Doge and at one point on stage with a gold chainsaw given to him by President Javier Milei of Argentina, symbolizing the cuts made for government spending, to The joy of the crowd of conservatives at the conservative political action conference in Maryland.
“We are fighting Matrix here,” said Musk. “It must happen.”
Fox News’ Alex Nitzberg, Emma Woodhead, Michael Lee, Greg Wehner and Michael Dorgan have contributed to this report.
