A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday rejected a bid by a group of unions to block the Trump administration government downsizing team known as the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing sensitive data on Americans.

A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit allowed Department of Government Efficiency access to data held by some federal agencies.

In June, the Supreme Court cleared the way for DOGE to access Social Security systems containing personal data on millions of Americans.