A newly published report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has revealed that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) deleted the digital access records of Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) personnel who had been detailed to the agency. The deletion occurred in August 2025, shortly after DOGE members left but before GAO investigators requested to observe the systems, meaning auditors could not verify claims about what data DOGE staff accessed. The matter matters because it stems from an April 2025 whistleblower complaint alleging DOGE had accessed and possibly exfiltrated sensitive NLRB information, and the missing records leave central questions about that access unresolved.

The GAO report, titled to state that NLRB detailees "did not access IT systems between April 16 and July 25, 2025", conspicuously covers only the period after the whistleblower complaint and not earlier activity. According to whistleblower Dan Berulis, DOGE officials sought "tenant owner" accounts with unrestricted permission to read, copy and alter data, exceeding even the agency's chief information officer's access. Records for such sensitive systems are meant to be retained for six years under the General Records Schedule, and their destruction may breach retention rules and the Federal Records Act, particularly where FOIA requests were pending. The NLRB, which has investigated Elon Musk-owned firms Tesla and SpaceX, did not respond to requests for comment, and no specific DOGE members were named in the report.