( April 16, 2025, 8:54 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — States that sued the U.S. Treasury Department for granting access to the payment system of the Bureau of Fiscal Services (BFS) to the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) failed in their motion for reconsideration of a ruling that two of their claims under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) were unlikely to succeed, with a New York federal judge rejecting new arguments and reiterating her position that the claims under the Privacy Act and the E-Government Act (EGA) do not fall within the states’ zone of interest....