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The DOGE team may have taken data related to union organizing and labor complaints and hid its tracks, according to a whistleblower.

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The DOGE team may have taken data related to union organizing and labor complaints and hid its tracks, according to a whistleblower.

Charlotte Gomez for NPR/NPR

President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency team, or DOGE, appears to be grabbing sensitive data from all over the government.

A whistleblower has come forward by filing an official disclosure to Congress about concerning activity on the systems at one independent federal agency, the National Labor Relations Board.

Elon Musk says DOGE is searching for savings throughout the government. But is the data being accessed valuable?

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That was NPR’s Jenna McLaughlin

This episode was produced by Audrey Ngyen and Alejandra Marquez Janse. It was edited by Brett Neely.

Our executive producer is Sami Yenigun.

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