Democratic AGs from 19 states sue Trump admin over DOGE access to sensitive, personal data at Treasury

Democratic attorneys wide from 19 states person filed a national suit against the Trump medication implicit the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) access to sensitive, idiosyncratic data belonging to Americans astatine the Treasury Department. 

The suit claims the Elon Musk-run bureau illegally accessed the Treasury Department’s cardinal outgo strategy astatine the Trump administration’s behest. 

On Thursday, the Treasury agreed to bounds the Musk team’s entree to its outgo systems portion a justice hears arguments successful a erstwhile suit filed by a radical of worker unions and retirees. 

The lawsuit, filed Monday, claimed Musk’s squad violated the instrumentality by being fixed "full access" to the Treasury’s outgo systems.

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Democratic attorneys wide from 19 states person filed a national suit against the Trump medication implicit the Department of Government Efficiency’s entree to sensitive, idiosyncratic information belonging to Americans astatine the Treasury Department.  (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

The outgo systems person accusation astir Americans’ Social Security, Medicare and veterans’ benefits, taxation refund accusation and overmuch more. 

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told FOX Business Wednesday the concerns are not valid. 

"DOGE is not going to fail," helium said. "They are moving a batch of people's food present successful the capital, and erstwhile you perceive this squawking, past immoderate presumption quo involvement is not happy.

"At the Treasury, our outgo strategy is not being touched. We process 1.3 cardinal payments a year. There is simply a survey being done — tin we person much accountability, much accuracy, much traceability that the wealth is going wherever it is? But, successful presumption of payments being stopped, that is happening upstream astatine the section level."

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DOGE was launched to basal retired wasteful spending successful the government, and it has already come adjacent to closing the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). 

The suit claims the Elon Musk-run bureau illegally accessed the Treasury Department’s cardinal outgo strategy astatine the Trump administration’s behest.  (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

The suit was filed successful New York by the bureau of New York Attorney General Letitia James, a vocal Trump critic. 

It includes attorneys wide from Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin.

"President Trump does not person the powerfulness to springiness distant Americans’ backstage accusation to anyone helium chooses, and helium cannot chopped national payments approved by Congress," James said successful a statement. "Musk and DOGE person nary authorization to entree Americans’ backstage accusation and immoderate of our country’s astir delicate data."

The suit by the attorneys wide was filed successful New York by the bureau of New York Attorney General Letitia James, a vocal Trump critic.  (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

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Treasury officials connected Wednesday denied violating privateness laws, saying lone 2 members of the DOGE squad had been fixed "read-only" entree to accusation successful the outgo systems. 

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.