A federal judge on April 16 declined to dismiss a lawsuit from labor unions seeking to block the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing data systems at the Labor Department.
Headed by tech billionaire and presidential adviser Elon Musk, DOGE was created by President Donald Trump via executive order with the goal of identifying and rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government to reduce government spending and debt.
In a 46-page ruling, U.S. District Judge John Bates said that some of the claims made by a group of labor unions who sued the department could move forward, including that DOGE lacks the legal authority to access the systems and that doing so violates the federal Privacy Act….