Two unions and an associated nonprofit have filed a lawsuit against Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, the Treasury Department, and Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service, challenging the access the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been granted to Americans’ financial records.
The complaint from the Service Employees International Union, the AFL-CIO, and the Alliance for Retired Americans asks the D.C. District Court to declare DOGE’s ability to obtain and view Fiscal Service records unlawful and to immediately bar DOGE’s access to those records.
“The scale of the intrusion into individuals’ privacy is massive and unprecedented. Millions of people cannot avoid engaging in financial transactions with the federal government and, therefore, cannot avoid having their sensitive personal and financial information maintained in government records,” states the complaint, which was submitted in part by longtime Democratic lawyer Norm Eisen, who posted about it on X….