Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s extra-governmental Department of Government Performance, or Expand, was served a petition Monday just days after President Donald Trump’s opening.

The 30-page problem, brought by public curiosity law firm National Security Counselors, alleges that DOGE—which shares an acronym with the ticker of Dogecoin, Musk’s preferred video coin—is illegally operating as a national expert committee. In doing so, DOGE is operating in violation of the Federal Advisory Committee Act’s guidelines on hiring, statements, and other matters, according to the complaint.

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