Trump, Treasury Seek Dismissal of Injunction Halting DOGE Data Access

“Defendants have provided the information called for by the PI Order, and have shown that the Treasury processes governing the DOGE Team members’ hiring, reporting chains, training, vetting and security clearance, and anticipated access to Treasury systems, were not arbitrary or capricious,” the government said in its memorandum of support.

In case 25-01144, a coalition of states, led by New York, filed a suit on Feb. 7 against the Trump administration to stop unauthorized access to Americans' private information provided to Elon Musk and DOGE, alleging violations of the Privacy Act and E-Government Act (see 2502070050).

Five individuals also submitted declarations of support of the government’s motion Friday, including Daniel Katz, chief of staff of the Treasury, who said “all current members of the Treasury DOGE Team are Treasury employees.” Michael Wenzler, associate chief human capital officer at the Treasury, detailed the hiring and training structure of employees in question; Kari Mencl, chief of personnel security at the department, explained the vetting process in her declaration. David Ambrose, the Bureau of the Fiscal Service's (BFS) chief security officer, said he gave the PII and cybersecurity briefing to users of the BFS system, and Mark Vetter, who oversees the department’s ethics program, verified that the employees in question in the suit completed ethics training in the given time.

On April 11, the U.S. District Court for Southern New York partially dissolved the preliminary injunction, ruling the states were unlikely to succeed in their E-Government and Privacy Act of 1974 claims (see 2504140036).