A federal judge on Saturday would temporarily block political appointees and special government officials, including those working at the Department of Government’s Efficiency or DOGE, and access confidential information stored in the Department of Treasury. It’s done.
The decision comes after 19 state attorney general sued the federal government on Friday, with high-tech mogul Elon Musk and his Doge staff members including American Social Security numbers and other sensitive financial information. He claimed he had no authority to access the Ministry of Finance’s data.
US District Judge Paul A. Engelmeyer said the government “gives access to all political appointees, special government officials and government officials in the Treasury payment records in detail from non-Treasury agencies. We have issued a temporary restraining order that prevents us from doing so: payment systems, or any other data system maintained by the Ministry of Finance, including personally identifiable and/or confidential financial information.
Engelmayer’s orders include groups that may have previously accessed this sensitive data since Trump took office “to quickly destroy all copies of Treasury records and materials downloaded from the system.” Everyone is asking.
A hearing is set for February 14th for discussion regarding the Attorney General’s request for an interim injunction in the case.
The White House and the Department of Justice did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the story.
In a similar incident in Washington earlier this week, a group of union members and retired members also sued the government, claiming that Doge staff’s ability to access the Treasury data violated federal privacy laws.
On Wednesday, the Trump administration agreed to block all staff except for the two (Tom Krause and Marko Elez), and Krause and Elez said, “If necessary… to their payment records.” He said that if such access exists, they only access sensitive data. “Read”
Erez got caught up in another controversy on Friday. He resigned from Doge after the Wall Street Journal linked him to now-deprecated social media accounts supporting racist and eugenicist views.
After Vice President JD Vance defended Erez online and wrote in X’s post that “I don’t think stupid social media activity should ruin a child’s life,” Musk said in his role in Doge He promised to revive him.
