The federal judge prevents Elon Musk’s access to US Treasury data

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An temporary federal judge in New York, Elon Musk and his team from accessing data from the US Treasury payments, warned against risk, which leads to detection of sensitive information.

The order issued on Saturday morning is a new legal blow to the technological billionaire and the nearest payments of its allies through federal payments in an attempt to reduce the costs of the US government.

The court’s move came in response to a legal challenge from 19 democratic state lawyers, who have argued that the informal “government administration” unit, which was established by President Donald Trump, should not have access to personal information related to millions of Americans.

In court order Paul Engemayer from the southern province in New York books The “new policy” provided the risk of “detecting sensitive and confidential information” and “an increasing risk that the regulations concerned will be more vulnerable than before to piracy.”

He ordered that any “political appoinals, private government employees, and any government employee” from outside the American treasury should be restricted to access the agency’s data, and they must destroy any information they obtained since Trump’s inauguration last month.

It is expected that the matter will remain at least until a hearing of the court that was identified on February 14.

The judge highlights how the broad batch by Trump and Musk to reduce government spending selectively face the largest obstacles in the court, as it tests the limits of the executive authority as well as the American privacy laws.

Earlier this week, a federal judge in Colombia Province spent that strangers should not be given access to treasury payments, in response to a separate legal challenge brought by retired representatives and government employees.

The White House tried to suppress fears that Musk, who was appointed “a private government employee”, runs a rogue process. But Democrats are increasingly justifying the alarm bells around “Doug” activities.

Ron Wadeen, the best Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee, wrote letter For the Acting Commissioner to the Social Security Administration, which manages government pensions for millions of Americans.

The Ministry of Treasury did not immediately respond to a request for comment.