Democrat calls for probe of DOGE’s work at NLRB after story

Ranking Member Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) sent a letter Tuesday to Acting Inspector General at the Department of Labor Luiz A. Santos and Ruth Blevins, Inspector General at the NLRB, expressing concern that DOGE “may be engaged in technological malfeasance and illegal activity.”

Connolly shared similar concerns in his letter, highlighting the fact that billionaire businessman and DOGE leader Elon Musk’s companies like SpaceX, Tesla and X have cases pending before the NLRB and the Department of Labor.

Berulis saw around 10 gigabytes of data leave NLRB’s network — or the equivalent of a full stack of encyclopedias if someone printed them. Much of that data came from a system that houses information about pending cases, proprietary data from corporate competitors, personal information about union members or employees voting to join a union, and witness testimony. Access to that data is protected by numerous federal laws, including the Privacy Act.

The letter asks the inspectors general to answer a number of questions regarding ways DOGE may have potentially violated federal law, including any NLRB networks DOGE staffers had access to and what records of DOGE’s work within NLRB systems exist.

Someone with an IP address in Russia tried to log in with the username and password of a newly-created DOGE account just minutes after its creation, the disclosure reads.

In over a dozen lawsuits in federal courts around the United States, judges have demanded that DOGE explain why it needs such expansive access to sensitive data on Americans, from Social Security records to private medical records and tax information. But the Trump administration has been unable to give consistent and clear answers, largely dismissing cybersecurity and privacy concerns.