Following court hearings where the judge appeared to be EXTREMELY unreceptive to Department of Justice arguments, Trump and his Evil Minions™ have agreed to restrict Elon Musk's access to the US Government payment systems.
Attorneys for the Justice Department have agreed to temporarily restrict staffers associated with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing information in the Treasury Department’s payment system.
The agreement comes after a group of union members and retirees sued the Treasury Department alleging that providing DOGE access to the federal government’s massive payment and collections system — and the personal data housed in it — violated federal privacy laws.
The Trump administration filed a motion Wednesday night seeking to enter a proposed order that detailed the agreed-upon terms.
"The Defendants will not provide access to any payment record or payment system of records maintained by or within the Bureau of the Fiscal Service," the proposed order says.The order would allow exceptions for two special government employees at the Treasury — Tom Krause and Marko Elez — saying they are permitted access "as needed" to perform their duties, "provided that such access to payment records will be 'read only.'"
The restricted access would remain in effect pending a subsequent hearing on the lawsuit. The judge still needs to sign off on the proposed order.
It's clear that the hope here is that they have done this because otherwise the Judge would be creating an injunction of far wider scope.
Musk's attempt to seize the government's payments system are in violation of federal privacy statutes and open government laws, and possibly more laws besides.
This is f%$#ed up and sh%$.
What a remarkably lawless group of people.
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It's too late; once a hacker has physical access to a system, that system is forever compromised. The entire Treasury system needs to be scrapped and recoded ( w/o access to any MUSK/DOGE fanboi.)
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