One of the ideas discussed was the creation of "AI coding agents," which would be trained on existing government software to help automate and simplify tasks. These AI tools could build a centralized database of government contracts to analyze and manage them more efficiently.

One of the largest U.S. labor unions asked a federal judge on Wednesday to block Elon Musk's government cost-cutting effort from accessing the Department of Labor's systems, which the union warned could give the billionaire sensitive information about investigations into his companies.

A federation of unions has launched a campaign against Elon Musk's DOGE called the "Department of People Who Work for a Living."