Courts block Trump's DOGE actions -- chaos, panic not proving to be best legal strategy
(NPR) The Trump administration and its Department of Government Efficiency team continue to crash into more federal agencies — shutting down ongoing work and firing thousands of federal employees.
It is a historic power grab by the president. But the chaotic approach also may be undermining his chances of getting the courts to go along with the effort as lawsuits pile up along with court orders blocking the DOGE team.
"I hope that the court system is going to allow us to do what we have to do," Trump said this week in a lengthy Oval Office meeting with reporters. "We got elected to, among other things, find all of this fraud, abuse, all of this, this horrible stuff going on."
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/15/nx-s1-5297925/courts-block-trumps-doge-actions-chaos-panic-not-proving-to-be-best-legal-strategy