US Presidential Election Donald Trump will walk with Elon Musk before attending the launch of SpaceX Starship Rocket’s 6th Test Flight in Brownsville, Texas, USA on November 19, 2024.
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On Saturday, a federal judge would temporarily block political appointees and special government officials, including those working at the Department of Government’s Efficiency or Doge, to access confidential and sensitive 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 officials entitled “financial information” including American Social Security numbers and other sensitive financial information. He claimed he had no authority to access the Ministry’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 to prevent it from doing so: payment systems, or other data systems managed by the Ministry of Finance, including personally identifiable and/or confidential financial information.
Engelmayer’s order said that Trump “who from a group that may have previously accessed this sensitive data since he took office to quickly destroy all copies of Treasury records and materials downloaded from the system.” Mo is demanding.
A February 14 hearing has been set up 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 all Doge staff (Tom Krause and Marko Elez), and Krause and Elez said, “Only access sensitive data when necessary.” “He said. “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 that supported racist and eugenic views.
After Vice President JD Vance defended Elez online and wrote in X’s post that “I don’t think stupid social media activity should ruin a child’s life,” Musk has his role in Doge He promised to revive him.
