The Trump administration has asked the US Supreme Court to block a government watchdog group from questioning a senior official and obtaining internal records about the Department of Government Efficiency project once led by Elon Musk.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was a project aimed at drastically cutting federal spending and firing thousands of government workers, led by Musk last year.
The government watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), is seeking to uncover information about DOGE's efforts under the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
The Trump administration argues that DOGE is not an "agency" covered by the transparency law, but CREW has been allowed to gather evidence about how DOGE has operated, including making its administrator Amy Gleason available to testify under oath.
The case has been ongoing for months, with the Supreme Court intervening in the same case last year in favor of the administration, but the case was sent back to a federal appeals court, which allowed CREW's requests for documents and testimony to proceed.
The administration has been fighting CREW's efforts to gather evidence, arguing that it intrudes into the autonomy and confidentiality of presidential advisors and augurs time-consuming and burdensome discovery litigation.
