Following pressure from Democrats, federal employees, and unions, the Trump administration has agreed not to expand access to the Treasury Department for the Department of Government Efficiency. What do you think of this decision?

From Roll Call. The Trump administration agreed in a late-night court filing Wednesday not to expand access to a sensitive Treasury Department payment system for “special government employees” working with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency.

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The filing followed a series of phone hearings for the lawsuit Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The case was brought by current and retired federal employee unions that seek to block allegedly unlawful access to government employee data and protect any data that the Department of Government Efficiency workers had accessed. Several lawsuits, as well as Democrats in Congress, have criticized the access given to allies of the Elon Musk-led DOGE, claiming it threatens Americans’ privacy and opens payments up to alteration.

Justice Department attorney Bradley Humphreys said on the calls that two “special government employees” at Treasury, Tom Krause and Marko Elez, have been given read-only access to that system in order to work with DOGE.

Humphreys said the two employees are meant to help carry out policy set by DOGE, a cost-slashing task force based in the White House. In the filing Wednesday night, the government agreed not to expand their access to the system or share information they have access to outside of the Treasury Department. …

The lawsuit, filed by the Alliance for Retired Americans, American Federation of Government Employees, and the Service Employees International Union, argued that just providing access to the system, part of the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, violated federal law. …

The plaintiffs had filed for a temporary restraining order early Wednesday to prevent further access to the Treasury system and protect any information that Musk or his allies had already accessed. …