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DOJ agrees to temporarily block DOGE from Treasury records
As far as DOJ knows, Elon Musk doesn’t have access to Treasury Dept. data.
Update: Late Wednesday, a joint motion was filed with a proposed order, where the DOJ and plaintiffs suing agreed that the Treasury Department "will not provide access to any payment record or payment system of records maintained by or within the Bureau of the Fiscal Service" to anyone connected with DOGE, except "special government employees" in the Treasury Department, Tom Krause and Marko Elez. Both will only be permitted to have "read only" access as needed to perform DOGE duties.
US district judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly will likely approve the order, since she recommended this compromise in the lawsuit seeking a temporary restraining order to stop Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing Americans' sensitive Treasury Department data.
If approved, the order would allow two "special government employees" hired by the Treasury to continue accessing payments data to further DOGE's mission of eliminating government waste. But until the lawsuit is settled, DOGE and anyone outside the Treasury Department would be prohibited from reviewing that data directly, ensuring that nobody's government financial data is shared with any third parties without consent or proper notice.
