DOGE Defeats Unions’ Bid to Deny Access to Treasury Payment Data

Two public-sector unions and an advocacy group lost their bid to prevent the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing federal employees’ data contained in the Treasury Department’s payments system.

The plaintiffs had associational standing to sue, but failed to show that the actions they were challenging were “final agency actions,” a requirement to state a claim under the Administrative Procedure Act, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the US District Court for the District of Columbia said Thursday.

Kollar-Kotelly granted the government’s motion for summary judgment.

The plaintiffs—including the American Federation of Government Employees and Service Employees International Union AFL-CIO—challenged DOGE’s ...