Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a freedom of information request seeking details about DOGE’s secretive operations.

The court put on hold Washington-based U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper's orders for DOGE to respond to a government watchdog group's requests for information after finding that DOGE likely is a government agency covered by the federal Freedom of Information Act.

The US Supreme Court temporarily blocked a lower court order that would force Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to turn over documents to a watchdog group and make a top official available to testify in a fight over whether the office is covered by US public records laws.