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> False. It was a temporary injuction until the judge has time to review it.

It was in fact multiple injunctions because people at DOGE kept trying to work around it in increasingly stupid ways.

> So are 2.5 million other employees and advisors in government.

Those employees are employed by a government agency established, funded and given their mission by Congress. The heads of these agencies are approved by the US Senate.

None of these statements above apply to Elon Musk or "DOGE."

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whatever1 2 days ago | parent [-]

I agree with all of the above, but to be blunt, even if they were to go through the congress, they would be approved since Republicans have majority everywhere and they seem to have given a blank check to the President.

We did this to ourselves.

	▲	scott_w 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That's definitely possible. Ultimately, it was up to the public of the USA to be the backstop against this and they chose not to. I think it's worth pointing out that it's not a given Congress would have approved it all. For a start, it would take longer to legally setup the instruments that Musk wanted. Also, the current situation allows Republicans to conveniently wash their hands of any negative consequences. Which is likely a big reason they're not pushing on this at all, as demanding a vote would require them to take a clear side on DOGE.
	▲	xnx 2 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		They're doing it by executive order because they don't have the votes to do it in congress with their slim majority.
	▲	ZeroGravitas 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Musk has publicly threatened to fund a primary challenger for any Congressman who gets in his way so, in some very real sense he's the one doing it, rather than the voters who voted for their congressman, perhaps not expecting them to be threatened into compliance by the richest man in the world.