Judge Green-Lights Labor Unions’ Lawsuit Over DOGE Access to Labor Department Systems

The lawsuit seeks to prevent DOGE from accessing the systems, which contain financial and medical data on millions of Americans.

The Department of Government Efficiency website is displayed on a phone on Feb. 15, 2025. Oleksii Pydsosonnii/The Epoch Times

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 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.