Elon Musk‘s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been tearing through Washington at warp speed since the inauguration.
His crack team of young nerds has left bureaucrats sobbing outside the shuttered USAID offices and infuriated cantankerous career civil servants who guard the Treasury Department’s obscure payments system.
But now Trump is facing his first test and the opposition’s game plan is familiar: wage war through the courts with Attorney Generals backed by the Hungarian billionaire George Soros and judges appointed by Joe Biden and Barack Obama.
On Friday, Soros-backed New York Attorney General Letitia James led a group of 18 other Democratic state AGs in a lawsuit against the Trump administration to ‘stop the unauthorized disclosure of Americans’ private information and sensitive data.’
The filing alleges that the DOGE team has been ‘unlawfully’ granted access to a ‘variety of sensitive personally identifiable information’ through the US Treasury Department’s Bureau of Fiscal Services (BFS).
New York Southern District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer – who was appointed by Obama – issued an emergency restraining order against the US Treasury Department and Trump on Saturday.
The order commanded that no one outside of the US Treasury is allowed access to the department’s information.