DOGE is an Unconstitutional and Fascist Hostile Takeover of Federal Government

DOGE, Elon Musk, and the Trump regime are violating Article I of the Constitution, the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, and a 1975 Supreme Court ruling determining the president has to spend the money allocated by Congress.

Corporate welfare queen, oligarch, and enemy of the people Elon Musk (above).

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has absolutely no authority to exist under the Constitution. Its actions have actually violated the constitutional order, a 1974 law limiting presidential impoundment of funds authorized by Congress, and a 1975 Supreme Court ruling that determined Nixon did not have the authority to hold back lawfully appropriated federal funding by Congress. This means the unelected, Nazi-saluting billionaire bureaucrat Elon Musk, the autocratic Donald Trump, and Congressional Republicans who support DOGE, which is not a department lawfully authorized by Congress, are all partners in a quite brazen unconstitutional dismantling of the federal government.

DOGE overtly violates the Constitution, which gives Congress the power of the purse. Article I, Section 9 gives Congress the sole power to order appropriations. The power to appropriate federal funds logically comes with the legal authority to mandate the funds are to be spent in the manner Congress has decided. To have it any other way would mean the president could set the spending priorities instead of Congress, which is not how the Constitution is written

This is why Congress passed the Impoundment Control Act (ICA) in 1974, which was passed after President Nixon withheld (or impounded) funds for programs he opposed. The ICA says the president is required to spend the money appropriated by Congress. Under the ICA, the president can propose holding back appropriated funds and give Congress 45 days to pass a new law agreeing to such a holdback. However, if Congress does nothing after that period of time, the money appropriated must be spent by the executive branch. 

The Supreme Court ruled against the Nixon Administration the following year in Train v. City of New York (1975) when federal funds were held back and not spent as Congress had directed, reinforcing the limits on the executive branch to impound funds appropriated by Congress.

DOGE is as illegal and unconstitutional as it can get. The question is whether the conservative Supreme Court with 1/3 of its justices appointed by Trump will actually do its job in good faith and reach the same conclusion when DOGE inevitably ends up in front of it. 

Even if the Supreme Court does uphold the strict limits on impoundment, will the Trump monster it has created and emboldened with its disastrous presidential immunity ruling even abide by the ruling? How much of a federal bureaucracy will even be left by then?

Last Updated @ 4:58AM on 4.1.2025

Rubio Admits Venezuelans Sent to Concentration Camp Not All Gang Members

In remarks to the press yesterday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio admitted the Trump regime violated the due process of at least some of the Venezuelan immigrants sent to an El Salvador concentration camp earlier this month. The Trump regime illegally sent the men to El Salvador on March 15th by incorrectly using the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act (which requires a Congressional declaration of war on a foreign country or government) and directly violated a federal court order for the planes transporting the Venezuelan migrants to turn around and return to the United States. The regime also lied in multiple official statements prior to Rubio's and claimed all of the Venezuelans were members of the gang Tren de Aragua.

Here is a partial transcript from Rubio's remarks to the press (Source):

QUESTION:  (Inaudible) some of the people sent down to El Salvador to the prison weren’t actually gang members, but that, for example, there was a (inaudible) with a tattoo (inaudible) supporting autism, people with autism, but it looked like a gang tattoo to the immigration agent and then (inaudible) mistakes made.  How do you address that?

SECRETARY RUBIO:  Well, ultimately that – all of that was the work of the Department of Homeland Security.  They’ve identified them.  I have confidence in the assessments that they’ve made.  They’re – but I can’t speak to any one of the individual cases because we’re not involved in compiling them.  But I have no reason – in fact, I have confidence that they compiled a good list.  And if we have an opportunity to send more, we will – gang members, MS-13, whatever we can send.

QUESTION:  (Inaudible) isn’t it an issue of due process?  I mean, was that raised with President Bukele?  Do these people have a right to appeal in some way?

SECRETARY RUBIO:  Every single one of them was deportable for reasons even beyond the Alien Enemies Act.  The MS-13 as well.  They were all deportable.  Many of these people had orders of deportation already and were either in custody or had been recently apprehended.  So every single person that was sent there was deportable.

Unfortunately, if they’re of Venezuelan descent, up until this week the Venezuelans were not picking anybody up.  They were not allowing anybody to go back.  They’re the only country in the hemisphere that was refusing to accept anyone.  They have restarted those suddenly, and hopefully they’ll continue and then we won’t have to use El Salvador.

More on this and specific examples of the violation of due process to follow. 

One of the most egregious examples is the case of Andry Hernandez.