A federal judge on Friday denied a request to block the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) staff from accessing sensitive data from the Treasury Department.

The Alliance for Retired Americans and several employee unions sued the federal government over the staff's access to the data from the Fiscal Service. 

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly rejected the lawsuit, stating that the plaintiffs failed to show how they would face irreparable harm if the DOGE staff gained access. 

“If Plaintiffs could show that Defendants imminently planned to make their private information public or to share that information with individuals outside the federal government with no obligation to maintain its confidentiality, the Court would not hesitate to find likelihood of irreparable harm,” Kollar-Kotelly wrote, per The Hill. “But on the present record, Plaintiffs have not shown that Defendants have such a plan."

The ruling comes despite another judge still having an order in place that blocks the DOGE team from accessing the data.

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