The order came in response to a lawsuit filed by 19 attorneys general accusing the president of failing to faithfully execute the nation’s laws when he let DOGE comb through federal computer systems.

A federal judge is likely to quickly decide whether to let Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency resume accessing Treasury Department records containing sensitive personal data for millions

The US Treasury Department’s payment servers hold the tax returns, social security data and bank account numbers of every adult citizen of the United States. They are, one would assume, among the most highly secured servers on earth and yet it seems that all the employees of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) needed to do to access these systems after January 20 was to walk into Treasury Department offices and demand access to the servers’ credentials.

The Justice Department urged a New York federal judge to roll back a judicial order over the weekend that restricted access to a critical Treasury Department payment system, with members of the Trump administration publicly contemplating resistance to judicial orders.