DOGE must keep moving fast despite Democrats sound, fury and lawsuits

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has Democrats furious and the Washington establishment a-boil — desperately trying to mire DOGE’s “break things and move fast” in lawfare and other counterpunching.But the drive to uncover government waste and projects directly opposed by the public must not stop.President Trump and his minion Musk need to keep the disruption growing, shining sunlight into dark fiscal corners. Friday saw lefty “consumer advocacy” group Public Citizen team up with the University of California student government to sue to stop DOGE from getting Education Department data, citing supposed privacy concerns even though it’s working lawfully through the renamed US Digital Service.And another lawsuit led by big-gorilla unions — including perennial progressive villain SEIU — has so far stymied DOGE access to Labor Department data.Members of the same crew, which also includes labor giants the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and the American Federation of Government Employees, are suing DOGE over its right to access payment and other information via the US Treasury. Federal Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly has temporarily and seriously restricted that access, too, but she’s a committed ideologue, most notorious for snickering that a sick and elderly woman she sentenced to years in prison for an abortion-clinic protest might die while locked up (ha, ha?). In Boston, another federal judge paused until at least Monday the DOGE-led buyout deadline for federal employees in response to another lawsuit with plaintiffs including AFGE, AFSCME and the National Association of Government Employees.Then again, about 60,000 of those unions’ members have reportedly already agreed to the buyout: Derailing it puts the unions at odds with those workers’ interests. And we’re less than a month into Trump Round 2, so this is merely a preview of coming attractions. Will it, as rumored, be the Education Departm...