Ali Hussain has a background that consists of a career in finance with large financial institutions and in journalism covering business. Suzanne is a content marketer, writer, and fact-checker ...

Coinbase is poking holes in the FDIC's response to its FOIA request. An executive at the exchange says the response revealed only a fraction of the request. Coinbase has filed a similar request with ...

Cooper is not giving CREW everything it was seeking in the FOIA litigation. He rejected a request that the records the group seeks – including DOGE documents like internal memos, policy changes ...

Cooper wrote that DOGE is likely covered by the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), adding that “the public would be irreparably harmed by an indefinite delay in unearthing the records.” ...

Musk’s project to gut federal agencies and purge the workforce “is not subject to FOIA,” government lawyers wrote last month. Cooper argued that the administration appears to be making a ...

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is likely subject to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), a federal judge ruled late Monday, rejecting the Trump administration’s position that ...

The U.S. DOGE Service refused by arguing it wasn’t an “agency” subject to FOIA, but rather a free-standing component of the office of the president. Cooper ruled that DOGE “is likely ...

CREW filed a FOIA lawsuit in February seeking to compel DOGE to comply with its records requests. In response, lawyers for the U.S. government argued that the agency was no longer subject to the ...

The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) had brought the case against DOGE after the agency refused to process the watchdog group’s request for information under FOIA on t ...

And for the entirety of its operation thus far, DOGE has ignored Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests by claiming that it is immune from the process by arguing that it is a “presidential ...

CREW had lodged a pair of immediate FOIA requests with the Office of Management and Budget and one with the DOGE in order to learn more about how DOGE is working to conduct its "mass firings and ...

A federal judge in Washington ordered Elon Musk’s team and the Office of Management and Budget to begin releasing internal documents “as soon as practicable.” By Zach Montague and Minho Kim ...