A federal judge has indicated that she will issue an injunction forbidding members of the DOGE team, which is part of the Executive Office of the Presidency, from reviewing some financial records.
During the hearing, a lawyer from the Department of Justice disclosed that two “special government employees” associated with Musk, but employed by the Treasury Department, accessed sensitive records from the Bureau of the Fiscal Service based on “high level guidance” from the Department of Government Efficiency to prevent waste and fraud.
The hearing followed a lawsuit filed by three federal unions that alleged DOGE employees violated federal privacy laws when they accessed data from the Treasury Department, including the names, social security numbers, birthdays, bank account numbers, and addresses of taxpayers, as part of DOGE’s effort to trim the size of the…
