GOP senators begging for Musk’s phone number as DOGE collapses America’s 'constitutional structure'

11 March

SpaceX/Tesla/X.com leader Elon Musk has never held public office, but his prominence in U.S. politics increased considerably with the 2024 presidential election. Musk, a major donor to Donald Trump's 2024 campaign, now heads an advisory group called the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and is aggressively pushing dramatic cuts to the United States' federal workforce.

Many Democrats are vehemently opposing the Trump Administration and DOGE's mass layoffs of federal workers, and according to Tech Dirt's Mike Masnick, GOP senators are worried as well — fearing that the layoffs will hurt them politically.

In an article published on March 10, Masnick reports, "Republican Senators are so aware that Elon Musk is literally running the government now that they're getting his personal cell phone number to beg him to reverse his mistakes. This would be concerning enough on its own — but it's especially alarming given that just weeks ago, the DOJ (U.S. Department of Justice) explicitly claimed in court that Musk has no authority whatsoever over DOGE or government decisions."

Masnick adds, "The stark contradiction between what's happening and what the DOJ claimed came into sharp focus last week when the Washington Post reported that Republican senators were literally getting Musk's personal phone number to call him when they need his DOGE team to 'get problematic cuts reversed quickly.'"

The Tech Dirt reporter stresses that it is "particularly absurd" for the DOJ to be "claiming that Elon Musk had nothing to do with DOGE" when GOP senators are so anxious to talk to him on the phone.

"Yes, this is how our government now works," Masnick warns. "Musk's wrecking crew destroys stuff, and a select few Republican officials get to call him and plead with him to try to put broken things back together again — even as many of them are not easily restored."

During his 2025 State of the Union address, Masnick notes, President Trump bragged that DOGE is "headed by Elon Musk" — which contradicts the DOJ claim.

"When the president directly contradicts his own DOJ's court filing on national television," the Tech Dirt reporter observes, "it's more than just embarrassing — it's a sign of how completely the constitutional structure of our government has broken down. The DOJ is supposed to represent the executive branch's legal positions truthfully to the courts. Instead, we have the Department (of Justice) filing demonstrably false statements while the president openly admits the truth."

Masnick adds, "In any other administration, this would be a massive, ongoing, frontpage crisis. With Trump, it’s yet another story that is covered for a day and forgotten."

Read the full Tech Dirt article at this link.

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