Taking DOGE to Court Is a Doomed Strategy

 

By Ken Klippenstein

The war against DOGE is shaping up to be the same as the frenzied and ultimately unsuccessful takedown of Donald Trump that we saw in Russiagate and the January 6 investigations.

The parallels are eerie, with Democrats alleging an illegitimate government takeover by DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) headed by Elon Musk. Even more bizarre is their adoption, literally verbatim, of MAGA rhetoric like “Stop the Steal.” 

After weeks of confusion the party strategy finally emerged this week, expressed in accusations that DOGE was not in compliance with records laws and procedures. There’s plenty to criticize about Trump’s chaotic DOGE-led war on government, but the hunt for some kind of broken rule that will invalidate the whole thing hasn’t worked in the past and won’t now. 

For one, a senior U.S. intelligence official tells us that neither the FBI nor the intelligence community are investigating Musk and company for any unlawfulness. Trump has apparently granted DOGE officials security clearances, including top secret. 

The argument that protocol violations (like of the Privacy Act) can stop what’s coming is laughable. Even if these can be substantiated, they won’t stop Donald Trump any more than his violation of the Presidential Records Act act did in 2024. DOGEgate is doomed to be the same failure as Russiagate was, as the January 6 investigations were, or any of the numerous Trump impeachments, convictions, and criminal indictments were. 

Instead of making a plainspoken case to the public about how DOGE could negatively affect their daily lives, Democratic leaders conducted astroturfed “demonstrations” in front of USAID, Treasury and other government shrines this week. They adopted the conspiratorial tone of the MAGA opposition to the Democrats that they have been so contemptuous of in the past. 

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