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Judge extends order blocking DOGE from treasury systems

Elon Musk arrives for the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kenny Holston-Pool/Getty Images)

NEW YORK, Feb 14 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Friday extended a temporary block on Elon Musk‘s government cost-cutting team, known as DOGE, from accessing Treasury Department systems responsible for trillions of dollars in payments.

U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas in Manhattan said at a hearing that she would not yet rule on a request from 19 Democratic state attorneys general for a longer-lasting preliminary injunction on DOGE’s access to the systems. She left in place a temporary restraining order issued on Saturday.


(Reporting by Luc Cohen in New York; Editing by Leslie Adler)