DOGE Put On Read-Only At Treasury After Lawsuit

The United Press reports:

The U.S. Department of Justice has agreed to limit Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency’s access to the Treasury Department’s federal payment system.

The decision follows a lawsuit filed on Wednesday alleging that Musk and his group of DOGE workers violated federal privacy laws when they improperly commandeered data from the Treasury Department.

The lawsuit was brought forward by federal workers unions. The restriction on Musk and DOGE is temporary while the lawsuit is taken up in court. “The scale of the intrusion into individual’s privacy is massive and unprecedented,” the lawsuit said.

ABC News reports:

The agreement allows two individuals associated with Musk but employed by the Treasury Department – called special government employees – to have “read only” access to the sensitive data.

Once approved by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, who is overseeing the case, the agreement will stay in place until Feb. 24 when both sides return to court to argue about a long-term preliminary injunction.

The two special government employees allowed to continue seeing Treasury Department data are Tom Krause and Marko Elez, according to the filing. Krause is the former chief executive of Cloud Software Group, a Silicon Valley tech company. Marko Elez is a 25-year-old engineer who used to work for Musk’s X and SpaceX.

Not entirely a win, but still good.

Justice Department lawyers agreed to a proposed order that would temporarily curb operatives of the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing the Treasury Department’s sensitive financial data, a move that follows a lawsuit and protests challenging DOGE’s actions.

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