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A federal judge has blocked Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) from accessing the personal financial data of millions of Americans in Treasury Department records, according to court documents.

US District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer issued a preliminary injunction on Saturday to prohibit access, ordering Musk and his team to immediately destroy any copies of records.

The move comes after 19 state attorneys general sued the Trump istration after Doge, a cost-cutting initiative led by Musk, was given access to the records.

They argued access for Musk, a "special government employee", and Doge, which is not an official government department, violated federal law.

There was no immediate comment from the White House, President Donald Trump or Musk.

The Democratic state attorneys general sued Trump, the Treasury Department and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday.

Engelmayer's order, issued early on Saturday, said the states would "face irreparable" harm without immediate relief.

"That is both because of the risk that the new policy presents of the disclosure of sensitive and confidential information and the heightened risk that the systems in question will be more vulnerable than before to hacking," the order read.

The order restrains the defendants from granting access to Treasury Department records containing personally identifiable or confidential information to special government employees, political appointees, and other employees from outside the department.

The injunction restricts anyone else from accessing those records other than civil servants who need to do so for their work at the Bureau of Fiscal Services and have ed background checks.

The judge further ordered any person among those restricted to immediately destroy copies of records.
The conditions will remain in place until the next court hearing on 14 February.

Tech titan and billionaire Musk has been heavily involved in upheaval during Trump's second term, with Doge leading major cuts at the US Agency for International Development (USAID), which distributes billions of dollars of aid globally.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjw4g2q62xqo

Why dem dey fear na? Na only thief dey fear security camera... Na only Manchester United fans dey happy if competition no get VAR

Like for tinubu share for Donald trump

Corruption fighting back

Please who can teach me SAP program here

With what authority is Musk doing all these things? Of course you cannot do this with the president's consent only, the department must first be sanctioned by the legislature and whoever will lead it must be approved. In addition, is Elon Musk an auditor? If yes, when did he become one? Because as far as I know, even before Tesla's earnings reports are released, they have to be audited by one of the Big 4 or 5 (of you consider BDO) ing firms, talk less of a whole country that has one of the most effective regulations in the world. Or did Elon Musk think the U.S is Twitter - which has since lost over 60% of its value since he acquired it - where he can do as he pleases.

Chienex24:
Corruption fighting back

🤣🤣

Judge No know wetin Dey happen, Trump don make a member of the DOGE team as Head of the treasury payment system. So how the judge wan take sack am😂😂😂

This one choke.

Those money laundering schemes by the Biden istration will be uncovered soon....

This Okechukwu Trump and Chinedu Musk sef

Activist judge

President Elon Musk

Lol President Elon Musk will disobey court order. Person wey lock out congress few days ago.

Musk is the America defacto president

Corruption fighting back

Needed for another pandemic package.

If you know what I mean

Fight back from DEMON-CATS

Julius1995:
Or did Elon Musk think the U.S is Twitter - which has since lost over 60% of its value since he acquired it -

Maybe he thinks US is Tesla, which has gained 200% its value since he became CEO 😎

Corruption hates exposure

He no go gree

Corruption for Naija na child's play compared to the US

Temporary

He already has it!

Too late….

Many don't realize that
The way America is formed
Judiciary is very very powerful
In that Land

Even Presidents can't just do
As they wished
Judiciary holds the topmost power

So with the courts around
Trump should take it easy
Going with so much vendetta
Against his opponents
Isn't a very good advice
They still have the courts

US District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer issued a preliminary injunction on Saturday to prohibit access, ordering Musk and his team to immediately destroy any copies of records.

Personal financial records are salaries and wages only. That's not even 5% of the role of treasury department.

Secondly, this must be an illegal order to be thrown inside garbage 🗑. Is he the Supreme Court to determine the final order?

Staphylococcus:
He already has it!

Too late….

Even if he's already with it
He must still have to obey
The courts
Course they are the supreme

Musk is fast becoming a rogue figure in US

He who pays the piper, dictates the tune. Americans sold themselves to Trump, aided by Musk. Brace up, it's going to be a wild and painful ride for majority of Americans. Take your Trumpimycin with a smile. 4 years will be here before you know it.
That is the beauty of democracy.. Time heals all wound.

The next four years would be dramaS upon dramaz in usa

I'm very sure, 70% of foolish Americans who voted for lunatic are regretting their actions now.

The next four years will be wasted,the way we wasted 8 years during the time of lifeless.

MadamExcellency:


That must be an illegal order to be thrown inside garbage 🗑. Is he the Supreme Court to determine the final order?

And which part of law states that orders made by lower courts may not be respected until they get to the supreme court.

djon78:


Many don't realize that
The way America is formed
Judiciary is very very powerful
In that Land

Even Presidents can't just do
As they wished
Judiciary holds the topmost power

So with the courts around
Trump should take it easy
Going with so much vendetta
Against his opponents
Isn't a very good advice
They still have the courts

Democrats destroyed everything and going forward, it wouldn't be the case as the Judiciary has no right on how the Executive runs its departments. Secondly, Biden disobeyed the Supreme Court on Students' loan order hence Trump will capitalize on that to continue running the Executive as he deems fit.

See Judiciary wey dey function.