In USDC Judge Chutkan's Musk/DOGE Suit In DC -- One Of The Plaintiffs Uncovered New Facts That Require Additions To The Discovery Orders...

The plaintiffs are finding spiders under almost every rock they turn over, inside these constituent agencies. [DOGE-y lil' brown-shirted spiders.]

And those spiders are about to be placed on museum boards, for all to see -- on the ends of long thin gleaming steel pins. Here's the latest, from this evening, in DC:

. . .Tyler Hassen [is] an official with Defendant Elon Musk’s so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE). Mr. Hassen was one of the DOGE officials who joined Mr. Musk for an interview with Fox News in late March. Mr. Hassen’s immensely outsized role in the Department of the Interior and the highly unusual Order issued by Secretary Burgum further illustrate the need for discovery to probe the nature of the relationship between DOGE officials and Defendant departments and agencies and the scope of DOGE’s authority over Defendant departments and agencies.

Second, discovery in National Treasury Employees Union v. Vought, No. 1:25-cv-00381 (D.D.C.), likewise demonstrates a broad role for DOGE officials in the dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), including in directing CFPB officials and actions. For example, DOGE official Gavin Kliger told the Office of Personnel Management that certain CFPB requests were “the highest priority review for today” and requested a call for discussion. Nat’l Treasury Emps. Union, No. 1:25-cv-00381 (D.D.C. Apr. 28, 2025), ECF No. 137-1 at 33. An OPM official memorialized the conversation, approving a “90 day competitive area waiver. . . .”

This information made available from discovery in National Treasury Employees Union further illustrates the importance and salience of discovery, including as to communications involving DOGE officials, in this litigation. Such information is relevant to the nature and scope of DOGE’s actions at Defendant departments and agencies and the degree of control that DOGE exercises over decisions at Defendant departments and agencies regarding funding, personnel, and the departments’ and agencies’ ongoing ability to perform their work. . . .

Buckle-up buttercup, this is only the start. These guys are being "found out" -- as de facto running agency decision making, putting the lie/perjury to what Tangerine 2.0 lawyers have claimed in sworn pleadings. So these same guys. . . are going to be ground to a fine powder, in the end -- by the steel wheels of. . . justice.

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