Trump Administration Fights Bid to Get Musk to Testify on DOGE
Elon Musk walks to the White House after landing in Marine One on the South Lawn in Washington on March 9.
Photographer: Samuel Corum/Getty ImagesThe Trump administration is fighting efforts by government workers and contractors to force billionaire Elon Musk to testify in a lawsuit that accuses him of unlawfully directing the dissolution of the US Agency for International Development while he was a senior adviser to the president.
The Justice Department has asked a federal judge in Maryland to block depositions of Musk and two former senior USAID officials, according to a recent court filing. USAID was gutted earlier this year as part of President Donald Trump’s plan to slash the size and reach of the government using mass firings, cancelled grants and the dismantling of agencies.