Washington (AP) – A federal judge said on Friday that he would not immediately block the Elon Musk team from access to systems in the Ministry of Labor.
The US district judge John Bates said that he had concerns about the efficiency of the government of Musk, but the unions that prevent them from preventing them have not yet shown any legal violation.
“Although the court houses concerns about the alleged behavior of the accused, it must refuse the plaintiff’s application at this time,” wrote Bates.
The Trump government agreed at the beginning of this week that Dogy only had access to a judgment of Bates, a representative of Republican President George W. Bush, to access the Ministry of Labor.
The union group had sued to keep the workers of Doge away from the Labor Ministry’s systems that contain medical and financial records of millions of Americans, including those who submitted security complaints about their employers.
The Ministry of Labor also has information about investigations into Musk’s companies such as SpaceX and Tesla as well as information about the competitors’ business secrets, the unions said in their complaint.
The Ministry of Justice said there are three employees of Doge who are in detail to the Ministry of Labor and report on its incumbent secretary. Mission.
The suit comes as a musk, the richest man in the world, consolidates control over enormous parts of the federal government with the blessing of Trump. Musk’s Doge team has received access to sensitive payment department systems, the US Agency for International Development largely broken down and offered millions of federal workers financial incentives to withdraw.
“With every step,” wrote the trade union lawyers represented by the Advocacy Group Democracy Forward, “violates several laws, from constitutional limits of the executive power, to laws that protect civil servants from arbitrary threats and negative measures, right down to crucial protection Collected for government data and stored on hundreds of millions of Americans.
The department is home to the professional security and health administration, which SpaceX and Tesla examined in connection with the security of the workers and confirmed with a fine, the unions said in court documents.
The leadership of the Ministry of Labor informed a union member this week that Musk and his team would visit, and the workers should let them do “whatever they ask, not postpone, not to ask questions,” the unions wrote.
The Ministry of Justice said that there is no evidence of misconduct, and the judge should not “give a comprehensive, prophylactic arrangement … Based on the plaintiffs’ rank speculation that DOL is violated”.
Another judge temporarily constrained access to the treasury department systems, which process payments a year, which restricted access to two employees by “only” privileges. One of them, Marko Elez, resigned after being associated with social media posts that were committed to racism, but Musk said on Friday that he was being restored.
Thirteen countries have also sued Doge on federal payment systems.
