( October 2, 2026, 7:41 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A New York federal judge dismissed a multistate challenge to the U.S. Treasury Department’s decision to give Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)-affiliated personnel access to sensitive payment systems and to develop an automated process for flagging federal disbursements, finding that most claims became moot after DOGE expired and its Treasury team was disbanded and that the remaining claims failed because the states did not plausibly allege final agency action....