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A federal judge in Washington D.C. has refused to block President Donald Trump’s Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing the Treasury Department’s systems.
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly declined to block the employees further after issuing an initial pause to their access.
The initial pause had limited access to two employees with read-only privileges.
Another court order is currently blocking DOGE’s access to the systems entirely.
The lawsuit was filed by advocacy and union groups that are concerned DOGE would expose their sensitive information.
Judge Kollar-Kotelly said those concerns are “understandable and no doubt widely shared.”
However, the judge noted that the plaintiffs haven’t shared anything to indicate any immediate risk of lasting damage from information being revealed.
The employees are already obligated to keep such information secret.
In her ruling, Kollar-Kotelly wrote:
“If Plaintiffs could show that Defendants imminently planned to make their private information public or to share that information with individuals outside the federal government with no obligation to maintain its confidentiality, the Court would not hesitate to find a likelihood of irreparable harm.
“But on the present record, Plaintiffs have not shown that Defendants have such a plan,” the judge added.
“If circumstances change, Plaintiffs are free to return to federal court to seek any proper emergency remedy.”
One source of the plaintiffs’ concern is that one of the employees with access resigned after an alleged series of racist social media posts emerged.
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