Elon’s DOGE Team Accused of Accessing Financial Information in Federal Lawsuit Against Treasury

• A federal lawsuit has been filed against Scott Bessent, the newly appointed secretary of the Treasury.
• Plaintiff complained about the disclosure of personal and financial information to the members of DOGE.
• Trump administration accused of seeking sensitive data of FBI agents involved in the 2021 riots in another complaint.

The Trump administration has been caught in a number of civil complaints filed by Union groups, the FBI and other plaintiffs for accessing sensitive data.

Donald Trump has given Elon Musk and his team access to financial and personal data of citizens, a federal lawsuit claimed. Musk is the organization executive of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Expressing concern over the privacy of individuals' financial data, the lawsuit was filed by two labor unions and an advisory group of retired workers which includes the American Federation of Government Employees. 

The lawsuit accused the U.S. Treasury Department, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and the Bureau of Fiscal Service of handing over the Bureau’s data and its computers to Musk and the DOGE members. 

They argued that DOGE is not a government organization but rather a temporary one formed by the President through an executive order.

Members of DOGE can access two of the Treasury's systems namely the Payment Automation Manager and the Secure Payment System that are managed by the Bureau of the Fiscal Service.

One of the other two class-action complaints against Donald Trump addresses the asking of the names of the officials who worked in the January 6, 2021 riots case and the second urges to secure the names of the FBI staff who participated in the riots investigation. 

A set of anonymous agents and staff from the FBI filed two lawsuits against the justice department asking to maintain confidentiality of the agents and other staff who investigated the January 6, 2021 riot that erupted around the Capitol.

The lawsuits were filed as a result of the acting deputy attorney general Emil Bove making a request for information seeking the names of the investigators and staff of over 6000 members who participated in the riot case.

Responding to Bove, on Tuesday, the FBI had shared identifiers of the employees like their IDs, role at the time of the investigation, date of last activity pertaining to the riot but not their names. 

Revealing the names could pose a serious threat to them and their families, one of the lawsuits claimed. According to reports, the complaint claimed that several of the plaintiffs’ personal information has been leaked on the dark web by the now freed ‘felons’ charged in the riots.

The lawsuit contended that the purpose behind learning the names could be to fire or punish those involved in the riot case. The second lawsuit sought to secure the identities of the investigating team and other personnel.

Bove fired eight FBI officials and 17 prosecutors who were part of the team working on criminal cases related to the riot.

The Trump administration has not made any announcements about the purpose of seeking the information of the personnel involved; however, the lawsuit states that that may be an outcome of Bove seeking the names. 

Over 1,500 Trump supporters who were serving prison sentences for attacking the capitol in 2021 were released in January 2025 by the new administration. Following this, the freed individuals took to social media to identify the officers and agents who were part of the investigations.