The ruling was one of two victories that the US’s highest court handed the Trump administration in cases about data privacy.
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The United States Supreme Court has sided with the administration of President Donald Trump in two cases about government records — and who should have access to them.
On Friday, the six-member conservative majority overturned a lower court’s ruling that limited the kinds of data that Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) could access through the Social Security Administration (SSA).
In a separate case, the majority also decided that DOGE was not required to turn over records under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), a government transparency law.
