Feb. 13 Attorneys general from New Mexico, Arizona, Michigan and 11 other states sued Musk, DOGE and President Donald Trump alleging Musk’s “virtually unchecked authority” is unconstitutional and “the sweeping authority now vested in a single unelected and unconfirmed individual is antithetical to the nation’s entire constitutional structure.”

Attorneys general from 14 states are challenging the authority of billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency to access sensitive government data and exercise “virtually unchecked power.

A group of state attorneys general on Thursday sued to halt Elon Musk's efforts to slash federal spending as head of President Donald Trump's new government efficiency agency, escalating the legal fight over the billionaire's influence in the White House.

Musk, Trump say they have a mandate to slash the size of the federal government, but the Democratic AGs argue Congress has ceded too much power.

DOGE acknowledged that the work was incomplete but said it was part of an “enormous manual effort consolidating 16,000+ offices.”

Two federal judges will consider on Friday whether Elon Musk's government cost-cutting team known as DOGE will have access to Treasury Department payment systems and potentially sensitive data at U.S.

Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford has joined another lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s administration, this time arguing his establishment of the

The lawsuit claims that Musk was unconstitutionally granted executive powers to oversee DOGE, which was created without Congress' approval.