Treasury, Bessent Sued Over Giving Access to Musk’s DOGE
- Union groups allege ‘unlawful ongoing’ data disclosure
- Musk was picked by Trump to modernize government, cut spending
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The Treasury Department was accused of breaking federal law by giving Elon Musk’s team of government efficiency enforcers access to a trove of personal and financial information — setting up a legal showdown over the Trump administration’s signature effort to shrink the government.
Union groups, which are affiliates of the AFL-CIO, and the Alliance for Retired Americans said in a lawsuit on Monday that Treasury and Scott Bessent, who leads the agency, had illegally allowed their members’ records to be shared with Musk’s group known as DOGE. President Donald Trump has put Musk in charge of an effort to modernize federal information technology.