State Coalition: Court Should Maintain Injunction on DOGE Access to Personal Info at Treasury
New York led a coalition of states that asked a federal court Wednesday to ignore a motion from President Donald Trump and the Treasury Department to dissolve a preliminary injunction. The injunction bars Treasury employees from accessing systems that contain personally identifiable information (PII) or financial information of payees.
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“There is no reason to allow future DOGE employees to have free, unchecked reign over Treasury’s systems and data, and every reason … to keep the current restrictions in place,” the states said. The government’s “promise to voluntarily comply prospectively with the vetting, training, hiring authority, and supervision criteria enumerated by the Court is no substitute for keeping in place the current preliminary injunction that will require Defendants to make a specific showing of compliance for any new individuals added to the DOGE Treasury Team during the pendency of this action.”
Case 25-01144 began in February in the U.S. District Court for Southern New York, when the states alleged Trump, Elon Musk and the White House Department of Government Efficiency were violating the Privacy Act of 1974 and the E-Government Act (see 2502070050). Judge Jeannette Vargas granted the states' preliminary injunction against non-Senate-confirmed Treasury employees from accessing systems with PII (see 502240008).
But on April 11, the district court partially dissolved the preliminary injunction on the grounds the states were unlikely to succeed in their E-Government and Privacy Act claims (see 2504140036). Trump and Treasury on May 1 asked that the injunction be fully dissolved (see 2505020056).