Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE as he’s coined it, was sued just moments after President Donald Trump was sworn into office Monday, with a public interest law group alleging DOGE is violating a law from the 1970s on executive branch committees—the first known legal challenge to Trump’s administration. The lawsuit from the National Security Counselors was shared with Forbes ahead of it being filed, and alleges DOGE qualifies as a federal advisory committee, meaning it must have “fairly balanced” membership, keep minutes, have public meetings, file a charter and more—none of which the panel seems to have done, according to the suit. The case is based around the Federal Advisory Committee Act, which was put in place in 1972 and is supposed to be followed when an agency seeks consensus advice from a group that includes at least one person who isn’t a regular federal employee and gets input for its own operations or activities. The suit also states advisory committees “have a nondiscretionary duty to ‘not be inappropriately influenced by the appointing authority or by any special interest,’” and the plaintiffs argue Trump and others have “inappropriately influenced” the committee.
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