The dizzying pace of White House actions
Elon Musk’s DOGE team is ramping up its efforts to reshape the federal government, taking aim at the Department of Education.
Members of the Department of Government Efficiency now have administrator-level status in the department’s email system, allowing them to potentially access sensitive information.
DOGE’s access to sensitive payment systems at the Treasury Department, however, was temporarily blocked by a federal judge after 19 state attorneys general sued the federal government, alleging Musk and his staffer had no authority to access data that includes Americans’ confidential financial information.
Meanwhile, staffers at the Environmental Protection Agency had to contend with dramatic shake–ups, and its online mapping tool used to help policymakers make decisions in support of environmental justice was taken down.
The stack of executive orders gushing from the White House spans so…
