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With the recent very public fallout between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, it's important for all of us to remember that while Elon was in charge of the Doge effort,

the Doge effort is not dependent on whether or not Elon is a part of it or not,

meaning that even as Elon is in the process of leaving his responsibilities in the administration,

the overall Doge project to reduce the size of the federal government will continue with his

absence. And along that line, late last week, the U.S. Supreme Court handed two big victories to Doge in

two separate cases. And so today, let's go through the details of those cases right after I briefly

set the stage for us with a bit of relevant information,

and also right after you smash those like and subscribe button so that this video can reach

ever more people via the YouTube algorithm. Now, back on January 20th, 2025, when President

Trump was first inaugurated into the White House, well, he issued an executive order. You can see

it up on your screen. It was executive order 14158. And that order, quote, established the Department of Government Efficiency, Doge,

with the goal of modernizing federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency

and productivity. The executive order requires agency heads to establish Doge teams within their agencies and to ensure Doge has full and prompt access to all unclassified agency records, software systems, and IT systems in a manner consistent with applicable law.

In practice, the way that Doge operates is similar to the way an audit firm operates inside of corporate America.

They go into federal agencies. They go through the systems, the contracts, the records,

and anything else on file, and they're looking for things like discrepancies, inefficiencies,

waste, fraud, abuse, things like that. Then they take all their findings and they give them to the head of that

particular agency and then that agency head can choose whether or not to act on those findings.

Now for the past six months, Doge has met with many legal challenges, many different groups and

many different entities. They have filed lawsuits against Doge for a variety of different

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