Unions lose fight to bar DOGE from Labor Department data

A federal judge rejected an attempt by some of the United States’s most powerful unions to block Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing the Department of Labor’s data.

On Friday, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge John Bates issued a ruling striking a blow to AFL-CIO and five other large labor unions’ efforts to stop DOGE from accessing data filed in the Labor Department’s system, as well as information from the Education Department, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.