WASHINGTON—A coalition of labor unions filed suit against the U.S. Department of Labor and its acting secretary Vince Micone on Feb. 5, in an effort to keep the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing the agency’s computer data.
DOGE, headed by tech billionaire Elon Musk, is also named as a defendant in the suit.
The suit alleges that DOGE plans to illegally access systems data from the Labor Department and “will fire any employee who protects the integrity of those systems.”
“At every step, DOGE is violating multiple laws, from constitutional limits on executive power, to laws protecting civil servants from arbitrary threats and adverse action, to crucial protections for government data collected and stored on hundreds of millions of Americans,” the suit stated….