Judge orders DOGE to release records on an ‘expedited basis’
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US District Court Judge Christopher R. Cooper has ruled that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) must comply with a request to disclose its internal records.
His ruling stated that the DOGE was likely covered by the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and that the public would suffer irreparable harm if there was a delay in disclosing the records.
The ruling follows a lawsuit by ethics watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), which had sued DOGE for failing to release documents including communications between staffers and federal agencies, organisational charts and financial disclosures, among others.
DOGE and the Office of Management and Budget have been ordered to produce the documents requested by CREW “on an expedited basis”.