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The US Treasury Judge prevented the delivery of data from the payments system to strangers, in an early legal kick to the Crusader campaign from Elon Musk to reduce government spending.
Judge Colin Kolar-Kotelle put the temporary matter in his place after Musa boasted that his team in the Ministry of Governmental efficiency (DOGE) was “quickly closed” treasury transfers, where he apparently obtained the system that spends trillion dollars, including social social, including In that social social, including social social payments and medical care, every year.
Representatives of government and retired employees sued the sensitive data that are shared with Musk and others in Doge, the pretext that such movements “were deprived of the protection of the privacy guaranteed by federal law.”
in spite of we The government assured the court that only two envoys in Duji, CEO of the cloud software group Tom Kraus and the 25 -year -old programmer Marco Eliz, managed to reach the sensitive system, and pushed Kotley Cotate to something that prevents any information to be shared outside the treasury, while looking at A more permanent judicial matter.
As a result, Musk itself will not be able to review the data withdrawn from the payment system.
This legal challenge comes at a time when treasury and White House officials sought to suppress concerns about Musk and Doua Al -Muqtum, and his broadest authority, after the businessman suggested that his team cancel “illegal” payments unilaterally.
On Monday, Donald Trump said that Musk, who became an employee of the private government, “cannot do – and will not – nothing without our approval.”
Journalist Caroline Levitte also confirmed that Musk will evacuate himself from any positions in which he might be a conflict: “If Elon Musk is conflicting with interests with his contracts (his companies) and the financing that Dog is supervised, then Elon Will excuse himself from those contracts.. For all the laws in force.
Dog, whose envoes have infiltrated various networks of government agencies, including the American Agency for International Development, Health and Humanitarian Services, and the Ministry of Transport, have been prosecuted several times by groups claiming that the body is defrauding various legal protection.
On Wednesday, labor organizations sought a restriction to prevent Duj from reaching the regulations of the US Department of Labor, after reports that the agency was the next goal of Musk.
“Dogs seeks to reach sensitive systems before the courts can stop them, dismantle agencies before Congress can confirm his powers in the federal budget, and they see the employees standing on their way, and later worry about the consequences,” the prosecutors claimed.
The judge will hear arguments about the proposal on Friday.
Separately on Thursday, a Massachusetts judge has been a final date for federal employees to accept or reject the acquisition package – part of an effort to reduce MUSK employees – until at least on Monday.
The White House also confirmed that only 40,000 workers accepted this offer, which is much lower than hundreds of thousands that it had previously expected.
Additional reports by Steve Chavez in Washington
