Judge extends order blocking Musk’s DOGE team from Treasury payment system

A federal judge on Friday extended a short-lived order that obstructs Elon Musk’s Department of Federal government Performance (DOGE) group from accessing payment systems within the Treasury Department.

The extension follows 19 state chief law officers submitted a suit versus the Trump administration over DOGE’s access to the payment system, which knows about Americans’ Social Security, Medicare and veterans’ advantages, tax refund details, and a lot more.

The claim declares the Musk-run firm unlawfully accessed the Treasury Department’s main payment system at the Trump administration’s request.

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The claim was submitted in New york city by New York City Chief Law Officer Letitia James’ workplace and consists of chief law officers from Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin.

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The claim declares DOGE unlawfully accessed the Treasury Department’s main payment system at the Trump administration’s request. ( AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas in Manhattan on Friday stated that she wasn’t going to provide a judgment yet on the chief law officers ask for a longer initial injunction, leaving the momentary order provided last Saturday in location.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent informed FOX Service recently that the issues about DOGE’s access to the Treasury Department are not legitimate.

” DOGE is not going to stop working,” he stated. “They are moving a great deal of individuals’s cheese here in the capital, and when you hear this squawking, then some status quo interest is not pleased.”

The claim was submitted in New york city by New York City Chief Law Officer Letitia James’ (imagined) workplace and consists of chief law officers from Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin. ( AP Photo/Brittainy Newman)

He continued, “At the Treasury, our payment system is not being touched. We process 1.3 billion payments a year. There is a research study being done– can we have more responsibility, more precision, more traceability that the cash is going where it is? However, in regards to payments being stopped, that is taking place upstream at the department level.”

The newly-created DOGE intends to cut federal government waste and has actually been admitted to more than a lots federal government firms, consisting of the U.S. Company for International Advancement (USAID), the Department of Education and the Department of Labor.