The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to block a lower court ruling requiring the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to comply with public records requests. At the heart of the case is whether DOGE, created by President Trump and led for months by Elon Musk, should be treated like other federal agencies under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
NEW at SCOTUS: a 16th Trump administration emergency plea to relieve DOGE from court-ordered discovery under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) pic.twitter.com/8KmbKMXe6m
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The administration argues DOGE is a White House advisory body and therefore exempt. But watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) disagrees, pushing for access to internal records and a deposition of acting DOGE head Amy Gleason. A federal judge ruled in March that DOGE is likely subject to FOIA, and discovery is now underway.
The administration claims such inquiries threaten presidential confidentiality and disrupt DOGE’s mission to cut government waste. This marks the second DOGE case to reach the Supreme Court in recent weeks.
