( September 14, 2026, 8:44 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A District of Columbia federal judge denied the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the U.S. Department of Treasury’s motion to reconsider the denial of dismissal of a putative class suit over the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) access to federal employees’ personal data, holding that although the court had relied on a postpurchase whistleblower report in its earlier ruling, contemporaneous allegations still plausibly supported the reasonableness of the employees’ identity theft protection costs....