A federal judge of USA a Emergency order to block access to the US Treasury Payment System control by the Department for Government Efficiency (Doge)a committee led by businessman Elon Musk.
The judge Paul A. Engelmayer prohibited, with order, access to payment systems and other United States Treasury data To all “political positions”, “Special Government Agents” and “Government employees assigned to an external body to Treasury”.
A brake on Musk doge
The order is valid to an audience set for February 14 and He says that anyone who has accessed data from the Treasury Department records Since Donald Trump assumed the presidency on January 20, It must “immediately destroy each and every one of the copies of the discharged material.”
Musk drives, from Doge, efforts to cut federal expenses. It is a newly established commission to advise the president of the United States in the Government restructuring.
On Friday, The general prosecutors of 19 states presented this case in the Court against Trumpthe Treasury Department and the Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besent. These alleged that the administration violated the law by expanding access to sensitive treasure data to Doge personnel.
Trump and Musk
Musk’s team had accessed confidential data from the Treasury Department days, which triggered concern.
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The order of Engelmayer said that the states that demanded “would face irreparable damage in the absence of precautionary measures.”
“This is due to the risk presented by the new policy of Dissemination of sensitive and confidential information and a greater risk of than the systems in question They are more vulnerable than before to computer piracy, “he wrote.
Last week, Musk was involved in a controversy when he was known that he and his team had accessed confidential data from the Treasury Department.
An internal treasury evaluation described Doge’s access to federal payment systems as “The greatest internal threat to which the fiscal service office has ever been faced”, The American media reported.
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“The Pentagon, the Department of Education … practically everything. Let’s go through everything“Trump said during a press conference at the White House next to the Japanese Prime Minister, Shigeru Ishiba.
Source: Ambito