Billionaire Elon Musk's DOGE is targeting the Treasury Department. (Kenny Holston-Pool/Getty Images)
Musk's tirade toward the treasury department comes just after a federal judge blocked DOGE's ability to access treasury department systems. The Tesla CEO condemned the ruling as "insane" this weekend.
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The Friday lawsuit, which was filed by 19 Democratic attorneys general, claimed Musk’s team violated the law by being given "full access" to the Treasury’s payment systems. The systems include information about Americans’ Social Security, Medicare and veterans’ benefits, tax refund information and more.
The lawsuit was filed in New York by the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James, who wrote that President Donald Trump "does not have the power to give away Americans’ private information to anyone he chooses, and he cannot cut federal payments approved by Congress."
A federal judge intervened to block DOGE from accessing treasury department systems. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has expressed support for Musk and DOGE in the past, recently saying that the U.S. "doesn't have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem."
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"At the Treasury, our payment system is not being touched," Bessent said in a "Kudlow" interview on Wednesday. "We process 1.3 billion payments a year. There is a study being done — can we have more accountability, more accuracy, more traceability that the money is going where it is?"
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