Donald Trump wants to get off to a fast start enacting his agenda.
The Left is hard at work trying to undermine him.
And Laura Ingraham was shocked at one scheme to upend Donald Trump’s agenda.
Democrat pushback begins against Trump’s efforts to reduce the federal workforce
President Donald Trump is trying an outside-the-box approach to fix the longstanding problems of government waste and inefficiency.
He tapped SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to lead the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to use his private sector experience to cut government spending.
DOGE is an advisory panel that faced multiple lawsuits during Trump’s first day in office from left-wing activist groups.
One of DOGE’s top priorities is shrinking the bloated federal workforce by requiring employees to return to the office full-time from remote work.
Trump issued an executive order on his first day office called Schedule F that would make it easier to reclassify federal workers so they can be fired.
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley discussed Trump’s plan to “reschedule” federal workers during an appearance on Fox News Channel’s The Ingraham Angle.
“That’s already been challenged, and the thrust of that challenge is that other federal laws guarantee due process,” Turley explained. “And that by redesignating them, you are cutting back on legislative changes.”
DOGE faces a legal challenge
Turley noted that these lawsuits were an effort to throw a monkey wrench into Trump’s agenda.
“A lot of these efforts are meant to slow things down, including the challenge to DOGE,” Turley stated. “You know, the challenge there is that is to say what is DOGE? And what the challengers insist is that it’s an advisory committee. Advisory committees have to be open and balanced. But they are a bit premature.”
He said that DOGE’s setup is still being determined so some of the lawsuits against it may be premature.
“DOGE is very much a work in progress,” Turley added. “But the other problem that they are going to have is they can throw sand in those works. But Congress has a parallel DOGE effort going on. They are not going to be delayed by litigation. So, I’m not too sure how successful these initial attacks are going to be.”
The House established a DOGE subcommittee to work in tandem with Musk’s effort.
George Washington University public policy professor Susan Dudley – a former regulatory official in the Bush administration – speculated that the Trump administration was prepared to face lawsuits against DOGE.
Trump’s executive order announcing DOGE scaled down the panel’s scope to work on modernizing federal software.
Dudley suspected this move was to protect it from lawsuits.
“I can’t help but think that there’s more coming, that maybe more responsibilities will be added to it,” Dudley said.
Three left-wing groups filed a lawsuit against DOGE for not being compliant with the transparency requirements under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA).
“I think it maybe moots the lawsuit that’s been brought for it not being FACA,” Dudley explained. “So if this is how it’s organized — that it’s people in the government who bring in these special government employees temporarily, that might mean that the lawsuit doesn’t really have any ground.”
The Trump administration could be one step ahead of the Left’s lawfare.
