On Thursday, a federal judge temporarily blocked the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from obtaining access to certain Treasury Department payment records.
Treasury officials “will not provide access to any payment record or payment system of records maintained within the [Treasury] Bureau of Fiscal Service,” Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly wrote in a temporary restraining order.
That program handles an estimated 90% of federal payments.
The order comes after the Justice Department on Wednesday agreed in a proposed court order to limit access to the sensitive records to only two “special government employees” within DOGE, who will have read-only permission. Kollar-Kotelly approved the motion in a brief order Thursday.
Several government employee unions brought suit over who could access the material as part of a government-wide evaluation of programs and systems, led by DOGE.
The lawsuit claimed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent allowed improper access to Elon Musk’s team, potentially exposing personal financial information to unauthorized individuals.
Under the order, only Musk ally Tom Krause, CEO of Cloud Software Group, and Marko Elez – an engineer and former Musk company employee — will continue to have access to Treasury’s Fiscal Service, but they will not be allowed to make any changes to the program.
At lady, the expected pissing contest has begun!
What are they trying to hide? Musk must be on target.
True, the only time a Liberal would get excited over something like that is if they “have their fingers in the MON$Y pot”!
yes he is. and they are totally desperate. why cant trump himself take charge of looking into this Money pit? musk can tell him what to look for. and check out the two she allowed in. are they democrats? what does their checkbooks look like? did the dems pay them off to look the other way? we are getting really close as the dems are losing their minds. good for us. thanks elon.
Any and every financial system should be audited.
I am a senior dattabase administrator.
I routinely set up a security role for the auditors.
The DBMS (Data Base Management System), for example, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, enforces this policy.
I’m bafflec why this is so hard.
What does the Judge have to keep hid or is it just for the Democrats.
This Federal Judge needs to be disbarred for sure.
So the CEO’s access to his organisation’s accounts paid records?
Musk was appointed by Trump to investigate Government activity which includes where the money goes. Trump is the US’s CEO.
When will the corruption end? I wish that President Trump or someone on his team had another 4 terms to clean up the waste and corruption in our government!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so tired of their excuses to hide the corruption!!!!!!
Either an Obuma or Biden judge no doubt. The panic with these folks is palpable, and humorous at the same time.