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Can DOGE close agencies, cut spending without Congress?
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The Department of Government Efficiency — the Trump administration’s cost-cutting agency, headed by billionaire business

man Elon Musk — has put hundreds of federal officials

At a press conference the following day, Schumer said that the idea that DOGE is acting unlawfully"is not debatable. It is an indisputable fact."Because that hasn’t happened yet, we asked the White House what constitutional or statutory authority DOGE is operating under.

Legal scholars and government operations experts said they see little in the Constitution or U.S. law to support the executive branch acting alone to overturn what Congress has authorized and funded.

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