White House says Musk is not DOGE employee, has no authority to make decisions
According to a filing signed by Joshua Fisher,
director of the Office of Administration at the White House, Musk can only
advise the president and communicate the president's directives. "Like other senior White House
advisors, Mr Musk has no actual or formal authority to make government
decisions himself," it said.
Fisher's filing, made in a case brought against
Musk by the State of New Mexico, said that Musk was not an employee of the U.S.
DOGE Service, or the U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization, and added: "Mr Musk is not the U.S. DOGE
Service Administrator."
DOGE has swept through federal agencies since
Donald Trump began his second term as president last month and put Musk, the chief executive of carmaker Tesla , in charge of
rooting out wasteful spending as part a dramatic overhaul of government that
has included thousands of job cuts.
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