Agency built to cut government waste fights to the Supreme Court to keep its own paperwork secret.

…(cont) DOGE's answer was to go to court. This dispute has been to the Supreme Court once already: the administration sought emergency relief, and the Court sided with it. Now DOGE is back, asking the Justices to settle the underlying question for good — whether handing over internal documents is, as the Hill reports the administration's lawyers arguing, an "intrusive" demand that violates the separation of powers. The Washington Examiner reports the same claim: the request intrudes on separation-of-powers protections.

Separation of powers describes the relationship between Congress, the courts, and the executive. It does not, in the ordinary reading, describe the relationship between a records request and the agency that received it. But that is the argument now sitting before nine people in robes, because a watchdog group kept asking and DOGE kept saying no, all the way up.

All together now — the FOIA request. It asks the same thing in October that it asked the day it was filed: tell us what the efficiency office did. The agency whose entire name promises to find the fat in other people's budgets has spent its own time, and now the Supreme Court's, arguing that the one place its efficiency does not reach is the paperwork about itself. The Court has agreed to hear it. The watchdog is still waiting on the documents.