
Elon Musk's effort to dismantle USAID likely violates Constitution: US judge
India TodayThe dismantling of the US Agency for International Development by billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency likely violated the Constitution, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday as he indefinitely blocked DOGE from making further cuts to the agency. In one of the first DOGE lawsuits against Musk himself, US District Judge Theodore Chuang in Maryland rejected the Trump administration’s position that Musk is merely President Donald Trump’s adviser. Musk’s public statements and social media posts demonstrate that he has "firm control over DOGE," the judge found, pointing to an online post where Musk said he had "fed USAID into the wood chipper". In one instance in early February, the administration placed the agency’s top security officials on forced leave after they tried to block DOGE workers from accessing USAID's classified and sensitive documents. Chuang said DOGE's and Musk’s fast-moving destruction of USAID likely harmed the public interest by depriving elected lawmakers of their "constitutional authority to decide whether, when and how to close down an agency created by Congress".
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