An environmental organization is taking the Trump administration to court for access to records from the president’s effort to bust rules and downsize the federal government.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday by the Center for Biological Diversity in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, contends that the so-called Department of Government Efficiency led by Elon Musk is an agency subject to the Freedom of Information Act and should be compelled to hand over documents on a wide range of actions, including those that affect air and water quality, climate change and public lands.
“The public has every right to know what kind of rogue agency Elon Musk and his tech-bro army have created,” Brett Hartl, the center’s government affairs director, said in a statement.
“Musk’s wrecking ball outfit should be called the Department of Government Evisceration because he’s destroying critical federal agencies that keep us and the environment safe and healthy,” Hartl continued. “The reality is that rebuilding functioning federal agencies will cost far more in the long run than any trivial savings gained.”
