Department of Labor

One of AFGE's members who works in the headquarters of the Department received an instruction from Department leadership that Elon Musk and his DOGE team would be accessing Department of Labor headquarters beginning around 4 p.m. on February 5, 2025. This member and other employees were told by Department leadership that when Mr. Musk and his team visit, they are to do whatever they ask, not to push back, not to ask questions. They were told to provide access to any DOL system they requested access to and not to worry about any security protocols; just do it.

DOGE staff are given access to several Department of Labor IT systems

DOGE is granted authorization to use file transfer software at Department of Labor, alarming cybersecurity staff

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) starts an audit of how DOGE handled data at several agencies

Business Insider reports Marko Elez, Aram Moghaddassi, and Miles B. Collins are new DOGE arrivals at Department of Labor

Notes from a meeting at DOL about DOGE access state "they do not have write access. They have asked; we've held them at bay. We've tried to get them to tell us what they want & then we do it. They only have read access"

Marko Elez affirms he has completed his mandatory privacy training at the Department of Labor. This would be required before any system access.

Trump issues an executive order which explicitly includes an instruction that "the Secretary of Labor and the Secretary's designees shall receive, to the maximum extent consistent with law, unfettered access to all unemployment data and related payment records, including all such data and records currently available to the Department of Labor's Office of Inspector General."

Multiple federal staffers who handle sensitive data related to migrant workers are placed on leave for raising objections about DOGE access