(Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Friday extended a block on Elon Musk’s government cost-cutting team known as DOGE from accessing Treasury Department systems responsible for trillions of dollars in payments.
U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas in Manhattan granted a request from 19 Democratic state attorneys general for a preliminary injunction on DOGE’s access to the systems, pending the outcome of their lawsuit.
The states cited a risk that sensitive information could be improperly disclosed, and said DOGE had no legal authority to access the systems.
(Reporting by Daniel Wiessner in Albany, New York and Luc Cohen in New York; Editing by Chris Reese)
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