--- title: "Elon Musk’s DOGE Boys Now Infiltrating an Agency That’s Been Investigating Tesla and SpaceX" description: "Billionaire Elon Musk's barely legal lackeys at his DOGE group have infiltrated their latest victim: the US Labor Department." date: "2025-02-08" modified: "2025-02-08" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-doge-boys-department-labor-investigating-tesla" categories: - "Advanced Transport" - "Elon Musk" - "Future Society" - "Space" - "SpaceX" - "Tesla" - "The Industrialists" tags: - "doge" - "elon musk" - "government" - "the digest" --- # Elon Musk’s DOGE Boys Now Infiltrating an Agency That’s Been Investigating Tesla and SpaceX ![]() *\Image: Al Drago/Getty Images\* ## Who's Next? Billionaire Elon Musk's barely legal lackeys at his DOGE group [have infiltrated their latest victim](): the US Labor Department. It's a particularly hairy situation, even by the [fraught standards of DOGE](), because the department has investigated several of Musk's enterprises, including Tesla and SpaceX. And given Musk's well-documented [extremely vindictive nature](), it's not impossible the richest man in the world may try to single them out for retribution. His ventures have a well-established record of violating the rules of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which is a regulatory agency of the Department of Labor. OSHA has previously fined Musk's [SpaceX](), [Tesla](), and [even the Boring Company]() for countless safety incidents. SpaceX even kept the [death of a worker secret](), as OSHA inspectors found in November 2023. Federal investigators are also currently [looking into a separate death]() at Tesla's Gigafactory in Austin, Texas, which occurred in August. In short, having Musk's lackeys stir things up at the Labor Department isn't just a massive cybersecurity disaster waiting to happen — it's an enormous conflict of interest as well. ## Not OSHA As the [*Associated Press* reports](), a group of labor unions sued DOGE to protect sensitive information about workers, some of whom may have previously filed safety complaints against their employers. According to the *AP*, DOGE hasn't accessed any data about these employees just yet. The federal judge who's been put in charge of the lawsuit has yet to make a decision of whether to block DOGE from accessing the Labor Department's systems. However, unions are trying to get ahead of the problem by jumping into action now. "At every step, DOGE is violating multiple laws, from constitutional limits on executive power, to laws protecting civil servants from arbitrary threats and adverse action, to crucial protections for government data collected and stored on hundreds of millions of Americans," union lawyers representing Democracy Forward wrote in a [complaint](). **More on DOGE:** *[Elon Musk Asks If He Can Re-Hire His Incredibly Racist DOGE Boy]()* ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()