Opponents of President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency hope he gave them new ammunition in their lawsuit against the bureaucracy-slashing initiative. 

After Trump’s prime-time address to Congress Tuesday evening, legal counsel added a few sentences uttered by the president to a lawsuit as “new evidence” against DOGE. The White House has maintained that Elon Musk has no “formal authority” over DOGE, but Trump’s comments put this into question.