
Elon Musk attends the opening ceremony of the new Tesla Gigafactory for electric cars in Gruenheide, Germany, March 22, 2022. — Reuters
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WASHINGTON: An American judge earlier Saturday issued an emergency order to prevent Elon Musk’s government reform team from accessing personal and financial data for millions of Americans who stored in the Treasury Department.
The US District Judge Paul is banned from providing access to all political appointments, special government employees and government employees, detailed from an agency outside the Treasury Department, under the orders of an angel mayor.
The temporary ban order, which is implemented until the February 14 hearing, also says that any such person has accessed data from the Treasury records, since President Donald Trump’s inauguration of January 20. “Any and all copies downloaded immediately have to remove immediately.”
Musk, the richest man in the world, is leading Trump’s efforts to earn Federal Cost under the Government’s Performance (DOGE).
The case was brought on Friday by the Attorney General from 19 states against the Republican President, Finance Department and Treasury Secretary Scott Basant.
He alleged that the administration violated the law by increasing access to sensitive data of the department to the Musk Dodge staff.
Tesla, Space X and X chief are neither a federal employee nor any government official, though US media reported this month that they were registered as “special government employees”.
The Dodge does not enjoy the full status as a government department, which will require Congress approval.
But Musk, a top donor and ally of Trump, and his team have tried to stop foreign aid programs, reduce the budget and prevent several government workers in the first weeks of the new administration.
Musk condemned Angel Mayor as “worker” on Saturday, accusing Democrats of “trying to hide the biggest fraud scheme in human history!”
‘Uncontrolled Access’
Judge Angle Mayor’s ruling earlier Saturday said that the case against the states would “face irreparable harm in the absence of discrimination relief.”
He wrote, “Both of them are due to the risk of revealing sensitive and confidential information and more dangerous that the underlying system will be more at risk than before hacking.”
Musk was in a dispute with reports last week that he and his team were accessing sensitive data stored in the Treasury Department.
The US media reports, “The Dage Team’s access to the federal payment system has been described as the biggest internal threat to the financial services (BFS) bureau.” “
In a case of states, including New York and California, it has been alleged that the Trump administration has provided the BFS payment system “at least a 25 -year -old Dodge Associate”, “practical access”, Who “had the option of viewing or editing a number of important files.”
With this access “there are major threats of cybercopy, which also include risks to states and states residents whose information will be used in a way not allowed by federal law and action. Will go. ” At the end of Friday
It also states that reports indicate that “the data of other federal agencies is being fed in the open source artificial intelligence (” AI “) system, which is owned and private third -party management. “”
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platin said Friday that Trump has “allowed an unprocessed billionaire to infiltrate key federal agencies and systems that social security numbers, banking information and other highly sensitive to millions of people. Protect the data. “
More challenges
Judicial challenges have become the form of a rapid move to restore the government’s spending and manpower.
An attempt by a judge to abolish the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship has been blocked. Another judge on Thursday stopped trying to offers federal workers to a massive purchase, arguing pending next week.
The US Agency for International Development (USAID), which distributes humanitarian aid globally, has become a major target.
The Trump administration has ordered thousands of internationally -based staff to return to the United States and have begun reducing USAID’s head account close to 300.
Labor unions are challenging the legal status of the attack. A federal judge on Friday ordered a break on a plan to put 2,200 US aid workers on a salary leave by the end of the week.
Democrats say it would be unconstitutional for Trump to close government agencies without a legislator’s green light.