A coalition of federal employee unions led by Democracy Forward filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in an effort to block the South African billionaire and his team from accessing and potentially tampering with Department of Labor databases.
According to the lawsuit, DOGE — a quasi-governmental entity that has already slashed its way through multiple federal agencies in the name of cutting wasteful spending — on Tuesday ordered Labor Department employees to hand over sensitive data and access to computer systems or "risk termination." Employees said that they were told to "do whatever they ask, not to push back, not to ask questions" whenever Musk and his team visited the department and provide access to any department of labor system even if they had to follow security protocols, per the complaint.
