Authorities in San Francisco are on the lookout for three males who entered San Francisco Metropolis Corridor on Friday, posing as staff of Elon Musk’s Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE).
The three males had been sporting Make America Nice Once more (MAGA) hats and DOGE shirts and authorities imagine they had been imposters.
“We don’t imagine the people requesting entry to Metropolis information had been representatives from DOGE,” the sheriff’s workplace stated.
Metropolis Corridor staff refused at hand over any data and alerted regulation enforcement. By the point authorities had arrived, nonetheless, the three suspects had left the constructing.
The sheriff’s workplace is now reviewing surveillance movies and “utilizing different investigative instruments to pursue leads,” it stated.
DOGE, an advisory panel launched by Trump, has been tasked with hunting down wasteful federal authorities spending, fraud, and abuse.
California lately joined 18 different states in suing the federal authorities to cease DOGE from accessing Treasury Division data together with Individuals’ social safety and financial institution data. The court docket granted a short lived restraining order whereas the states search a preliminary injunction.
Whereas chatting with reporters on Thursday, Musk defended DOGE’s efforts to drastically minimize spending, saying that Individuals voted for main change and that the Trump administration is delivering.
The order calls for enormous cuts, together with a directive “that every company rent no a couple of worker for each 4 staff that depart.”
The chief order supplies some exemptions, together with to the army and regulation enforcement.