No. of Recommendations: 9
And no one is suggesting that anything of that nature be shared. What's being shared is stuff like the Politico Pro subscription information and amounts of payment, which is all fair game.
I think we may be crossing lawsuits. I'm not aware of any orders that blocked the sharing of information about Politico Pro subscriptions. The agency would be able to tell people about things like that.
The orders here were blocking access to the Treasury's payment system, which covers about 2/3 of the entire federal government and will certainly include access to tons of personally identifiable information (unless they simply do not maintain any information that is unhashed anywhere in that system, which seems unlikely given the order). That information is required to be maintained private. Which means Treasury can't let DOGE have access to the system. If DOGE asks for information that does not involve personally identifiable information, Treasury can provide it (subject to tons of other rules not relevant here). But if they ask for access to the entire payments system, which includes PII, Treasury can't give it to them.
Well, at least under the preliminary injunction - and under a plain reading of the Privacy Act. Who knows where it eventually lands.
