CALL TO ACTION

by Stephen Fowler and Jenna McLaughlin The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee is asking Microsoft to share information about a Department of Government Efficiency staffer's account on a Microsoft-owned website that allegedly hosted what the lawmaker called "bespoke code" designed to remove data from a sensitive case management database used by the National Labor Relations Board.

In a letter first shared with NPR and addressed to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., the acting ranking member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, cites reporting from NPR and a whistleblower disclosure about DOGE's activities in his request for records "as part of Committee Democrats' ongoing work to prevent the theft of government data for private purposes."

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