A lawsuit challenging Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency’s access to computer systems at a trio of federal agencies may fall on the issue of whether the group is actually an official agency.
Judge John D. Bates of the US District Court for the District of Columbia questioned whether DOGE employees dispatched to agencies like the US Department of Labor should be considered employees of those agencies, during a hearing over a motion to temporarily block DOGE’s access to data at three agencies. Only official federal agencies can enter into agreements to detail or share staff among other agencies.
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