State AGs Win Extended Block on DOGE’s Treasury Data Access (2)

Elon Musk’s government efficiency team is still restrained from accessing the US Treasury Department’s payment records or data systems that contain personal information, a New York federal judge ruled Friday.

A group of 19 mostly Democratic-controlled states suing the Trump administration over the Department of Government Efficiency’s access to sensitive data won their motion for a preliminary injunction to extend an existing restraining order on the team.

But Judge Jeannette A. Vargas of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York said parts of the injunction request by the state attorneys general was overly broad. She ordered ...