Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s extra-governmental Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, was served a lawsuit Monday just minutes after President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
The 30-page complaint, brought by public interest law firm National Security Counselors, alleges that DOGE—which shares an acronym with the ticker of Dogecoin, Musk’s favorite meme coin—is illegally operating as a federal advisory committee. In doing so, DOGE is operating in violation of the Federal Advisory Committee Act’s rules on hiring, disclosures, and other matters, according to the lawsuit.
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