A federal judge in New York extended a ban prohibiting Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing the Treasury Department’s payment system. U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas issued a ruling on Friday granting a preliminary injunction requested by 19 Democratic state attorneys general to keep DOGE from accessing the records while the case plays

A lawyer for the Trump administration couldn’t say whether the data DOGE accessed had been shared outside the US Treasury Department.

Elon Musk’s mission to shrink the size of the US government has put a spotlight on an obscure federal office whose work directly touches nearly every American. The US Treasury Department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service processes billions of payments worth trillions of dollars each year,