Trump scores win in suit challenging Elon Musk's cost-cutting powers

Donald Trump's administration scored a victory on Tuesday when a judge ruled in its favor in a challenge by a group of state to the authority of the Republican president's chief government cost-cutter Elon Musk. Washington-based U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan made the ruling in a lawsuit by Democratic attorneys general from 14 states who argued that Musk, the billionaire Tesla CEO, lacks legal authority to direct the mass firing of federal employees or access sensitive government computer sys