Musk to shift focus from DOGE to Tesla after profits plunge
Elon Musk told investors he will refocus on Tesla and begin scaling back his involvement with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in May.
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WASHINGTON – The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on May 2 to let Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency access the data of millions of Americans kept by the U.S. Social Security Administration.
A federal judge in Maryland had temporarily blocked DOGE from getting their hands on the data after she found the agency likely violated a federal privacy law when it gave DOGE unlimited access.
The administration said the judge overstepped, blocking “critically important efforts to improve its information-technology infrastructure and eliminate waste.”
That’s an “inappropriate superintendence of a coequal branch” of government, the Justice Department told the Supreme Court.
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