LANSING, MI — Michigan and 13 other states have filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk in which they describe the tech billionaire as President Donald Trump’s “agent of chaos,” whose access to vast amounts of sensitive data on Americans and sweeping executive authority at the new Department of Government Efficiency violates the U.S. Constitution.

A group of state attorneys general on Thursday sued to halt Elon Musk's efforts to slash federal spending as head of President Donald Trump's new government efficiency agency, escalating the legal fight over the billionaire's influence in the White House.

Elon Musk’s secretive government cost-cutting task force—has doubled its budget from $6.75 million to $14.4 million, according to an updated financial filing. President Donald Trump has tasked DOGE with cutting government costs by restructuring federal agencies and eliminating fraudulent spending.

The U.S. government began firing thousands of people at multiple agencies on Thursday as President Donald Trump and Elon Musk accelerate their purge of America's federal bureaucracy, union sources and employees familiar with the moves told Reuters.

Elon Musk called on Thursday for the United States to “delete entire agencies” from the federal government as part of his push under President Donald Trump to radically cut spending and restructure its priorities.