Supreme Court takes on public access to DOGE records

The Supreme Court agreed to review how much the Trump administration must disclose about the Department of Government Efficiency under a FOIA request from the watchdog group CREW, after an appeals court ordered discovery into DOGE's structure and operations.

The administration argues DOGE was merely a presidential advisory body exempt from FOIA, and that the discovery orders were too broad and burdensome. CREW counters that the rule the government wants would let any administration dodge transparency laws simply by housing new agencies inside the executive office.

DOGE, built with Elon Musk's help, pushed mass layoffs, canceled contracts, and dismantled USAID over an 18-month run, with little evidence it achieved its stated budget-balancing goal. It shut down on July 4, meaning the records fight is now entirely about the past, not the ongoing work.

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