The Trump administration is attempting to shield its former DOGE czar, Elon Musk, from having to testify in a legal case involving his work for the “government efficiency” initiative. DOGE has been sued many times over the past year for its efforts to carve up the government, but one of the most longstanding litigation efforts involves its attack on USAID, the international aid agency, which was all but shuttered earlier this year .

In February, several former USAID officials and contractors filed a lawsuit against Musk and DOGE that accused them of an “unconstitutional power grab” and characterized the gutting of USAID, which was created by Congress, as a violation of the separation of powers . The litigation argued that Musk had exercised an unconstitutional level of “power with

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