The Supreme Court issued a decision pausing a lower-court ruling that sought to obtain records from the Department of Government Efficiency, otherwise known as DOGE.
A ruling issued on Friday put a pause on an order from a federal judge ordering that DOGE comply with freedom of information requests seeking thousands of pages of material.
Chief Justice John Roberts issued the decision to pause the order as the Supreme Court considers the future of the litigation against the agency created by entrepreneur Elon Musk in order to cut government waste and inefficiency.
This means the Trump administration will no longer be required to respond to FOIA requests from leftist activist groups seeking to stop DOGE from dismantling corrupt government agencies that have been wasting billions.
DOGE administrator Amy Gleason, who has taken over the agency as Musk has returned to the private sector, will also no longer have to stand for a deposition.
The Trump administration has been battling frivolous lawsuits for the past few months as leftist activists and the bureaucratic deep state seek to stop President Donald Trump's radical reforms addressing decades of corruption.
Activist groups claim that DOGE is a federal agency since it has the power to fire government workers, cut federal grants, and reduce government spending.
If DOGE is a federal agency, it would be subject to federal transparency rules and required to respond to FOIA requests for internal documents and records.
The Trump administration has refuted claims that DOGE is a federal agency, pointing to the fact that DOGE is merely advising the Trump administration on making cuts. The true decision-making power still resides with federal agencies and the White House.
U.S. District Court Judge Christopher Cooper ordered DOGE to respond to FOIA requests in March in a decision saying that, "the public would be irreparably harmed by an indefinite delay in unearthing the records CREW seeks.”
However, this discovery process is now on hold due to the Supreme Court's order, and it is highly likely that DOGE will be operating without intervention for some time as the Supreme Court tackles more important issues.
In the five months since Trump assumed power in the White House, DOGE has cut billions in government waste using a relatively small team of trusted individuals.
DOGE's cuts to wasteful federal agencies immediately ignited outrage among Democrats who zealously defended wasteful and corrupt agencies, igniting speculation that powerful politicians were using corrupt agencies to direct taxpayer dollars to themselves.
Unfortunately, DOGE's cuts have done little to keep up with the growing debt, thanks to years of out-of-control spending by the Biden administration.
However, the Trump administration had to start somewhere with cutting waste, and DOGE has been doing amazing work saving taxpayer dollars.
