Elon Musk Is Leaving the Federal Government. What's Next for DOGE?

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Elon Musk is leaving the federal government. What's next for DOGE?
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[President Trump], appearing to largely read notes from a binder, offered praise for Musk’s work as “one of the greatest business leaders and innovators the world has ever produced.”

[M]any of Musk’s allies are embedded across federal agencies as full-time employees, like a group of young staffers based in the General Services Administration who have been attempting to push DOGE’s reach beyond the executive branch — in some cases trying to embed in non-governmental and non-executive branch entities.

Other lawsuits have focused on one area DOGE has seen great success in: amassing sensitive government data and combining it into massive databases. Multiple federal judges have raised concerns about DOGE’s data access and what they plan to do with it. In some cases, it appears DOGE and the Trump administration are using the data for immigration enforcement purposes.

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