Elon Musk leads the Department of Government Efficiency. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Anyone covered under those categories who was given previous access to the sensitive data must "immediately destroy any and all copies of material downloaded from the Treasury Department’s records and systems," the judge said.
This comes after a group of 19 attorneys general filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump, the U.S. Treasury and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent alleging that the Trump Administration illegally provided DOGE with unauthorized access to the Treasury Department’s payment systems.
Kollar-Kotelly had earlier said in a temporary restraining order on Thursday that Treasury officials "will not provide access to any payment record or payment system of records maintained within the [Treasury] Bureau of Fiscal Service," a program that handles an estimated 90% of federal payments.
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly temporarily blocked the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing certain Treasury Department payment records. (Associated Press)
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Under that order, only Krause and Marko Elez — an engineer and former Musk company employee — were allowed continued access to Treasury’s Fiscal Service, but that changed with Saturday's order.
Krause and Elez were both named as special government employees in the Department of the Treasury, but Elez has since resigned.
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