Elon Musk says the choose who quickly blocked political appointees, together with from the Department of Government Efficiency, from accessing cost techniques within the Treasury Division needs to be impeached.
U.S. District Decide Paul Engelmayer drew Mr. Musk’s ire hours after he issued an order in response to a lawsuit filed by 19 state attorneys common claiming the DOGE squad had no authority to entry the techniques with delicate info, together with checking account numbers.
“A corrupt choose defending corruption,” Mr. Musk stated early Sunday morning on X. “He must be impeached NOW!”
Mr. Engelmayer’s non permanent restraining order blocks the federal government from “granting entry to all political appointees, particular authorities workers, and authorities workers detailed from an company outdoors the Treasury Division, to any Treasury Division cost report, cost techniques, or another information techniques maintained by the Treasury Division containing personally identifiable info and/or confidential monetary info of payees.”
It additionally orders those that did entry the system to “destroy any and all copies of fabric downloaded from the Treasury Division’s data and techniques.”
Democrats have been making an attempt to sluggish the Musk-led DOGE workforce’s quest to dismantle the federal forms.
They cried foul final week after studying that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had granted the DOGE workforce entry to the system.
The Trump administration has maintained that DOGE had “learn solely” entry to the federal cost system.
