Court Ruling Expands Musk's DOGE Data Access Amid Controversy
Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) maintains access to sensitive data following a federal ruling, while audits investigate its activities.
Ultimately, the disagreed with DOGE's own interpretation of its status -- determining it likely is an "agency" -- and delivering it a surprise win by determining that DOGE has the authority to continue to access to sensitive records.
Federal judge hands Musk’s DOGE a win on data access at 3 agencies
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The civil lawsuit challenges a new policy by the Department of the Treasury that expands access to the central payment system of the Bureau of Fiscal Services to “special government employees” such as Mr. Musk’s staffers at DOGE who’ve already cut a wide swath through the federal bureaucracy as they implement President Trump’s long promised cost-cutting initiative.
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The massive trove belonged to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and was discovered a day after HUD Secretary Scott Turner launched a DOGE task force at his agency.
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The Trump administration on Friday moved to fire more than 400 employees at the Department of Homeland Security, the latest effort in a government-wide campaign to dramatically reduce the federal workforce.
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Homan also told Fox News Digital he’s well aware of the Constitution.
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The removal of the FEMA funds has intensified tensions between the city and the Trump administration, with Adams facing political pressure from multiple fronts.
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Let’s focus on every American and New Yorker should have the right to have an opportunity and survive in this city.
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Adams’s statement came in response to a claim made in a resignation letter from Danielle Sassoon, the now former acting U.S. attorney for Manhattan who quit after refusing a request from acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove to drop the criminal corruption case against Adams.
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The reductions are part of plans by the Trump administration — working with Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency team — to significantly cut the federal workforce.
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The newly-created DOGE aims to cut government waste and has been given access to more than a dozen government agencies, including the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Department of Education and the Department of Labor.
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This is the quid pro quo.
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The administration was also hit with a number of new legal challenges, including one alleging the Department of Government Efficiency, the Trump-created office headed by billionaire Elon Musk, is unconstitutional.
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The request follows the resignations of at least seven top prosecutors in New York City and Washington, D.C., all of whom refused to follow the DOJ's order.
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Some experts are pushing back on the idea that the government workforce is too large, pointing out that federal employment has grown little since 1980.
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The CFPB has long been known as a popular agency, one that’s recovered more than $21bn for defrauded Americans since its creation in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.
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Political officials at the Energy Department told its non-political HR administrators to cite poor performance personnel files as a justification for firing the employees, the source said.
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The reaction speaks volumes about where their true priorities lie.
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Bove’s memo sparked something of a revolt within the Justice Department.
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Musk’s tech team meddling in sensitive personnel information is setting off alarms for some in the intelligence community.
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The dismissal closed the first criminal case in history against a sitting New York City mayor and set off a flood of resignations among prosecutors who refused to drop the charges.
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There has been a scramble within the DOJ over the past 24 hours to find a prosecutor willing to put their name to a motion that would ask the judge to formally withdraw the case.
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The layoffs are unlikely to yield significant deficit savings.
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The point here is that the new Trump Justice Department is busting through sanctuary cities and states, left and right.
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If true, the quid pro quo charges suggest the administration is using law enforcement to leverage cooperation with its agenda.
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This is a stark promise that we will keep you out of jail if you do what we in the administration want.
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The acting head of the Public Integrity Section and the acting head of the DOJ's Criminal Division also refused to drop the case and resigned.
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The battle to save public services predates Trump and his alliance with Musk.
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But there is a risk that his team’s aggressive efforts could lead to the failure of government computer systems and enable Musk and his partners to profit off private information maintained by the government.
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The kowtowing has only continued.
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The reality is that no new protection was created for consumers by the CFPB.
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DOGE’s work itself is highly circumspect, especially Musk’s involvement in government affairs.
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It is a long list, and it is why we should keep Elon Musk far away from our government.
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Musk’s role has no historical comparison.
They’re not just suing to stop DOGE. They’re suing Elon Musk himself.
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That means the Adams legal saga is still far from over.
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The audit is additionally set to review the past two years of the system’s transactions as they relate to Musk’s claim of “alleged fraudulent payments.”
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But several Department of Justice employees, including the top prosecutor in Manhattan, Danielle Sassoon, viewed the order to drop the case as politically motivated interference in the independent judicial system.
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But in rushing, DOGE appears to have skipped security steps that are expected of government websites.
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Adams was indicted last September on bribery charges and pleaded not guilty to federal bribery charges, which included accepting overseas travel paid for by wealthy Turkish nationals.
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The findings resulted in about 3,000 suspensions, reprimands and terminations for federal contractors and federal, state and local employees.
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Summary
Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) faces ongoing scrutiny after a federal judge ruled that it is a legal agency, confirming its ability to access sensitive records from the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Despite a push by unions and nonprofits to block this access, Judge John Bates ruled that DOGE employees can detail to these agencies. Concurrently, the Treasury Department has initiated an audit of DOGE’s access to payment systems, amid concerns over potential data misuse and financial fraud, leading to criticisms of patient healthcare access and possible conflicts of interest.
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