Looks like one of the judges went against Engelmayer; said his order wasn’t meant to apply to Senate-confirmed agency officials such as the Treasury Secretary or other senior officials :
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04:33 PM EST
Manhattan judge loosens restrictions on Treasury Department access
A Manhattan judge has ruled that the strict restrictions barring Elon Musk and his DOGE cost cutters from accessing sensitive data at the Treasury Department was not meant to include Senate-confirmed agency officials.
District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer had issued the order to halt DOGE’s access to the Treasury information, after attorneys general from 19 states sued on Friday. The lawsuit had argued DOGE does not have security clearance to access the data, branding it a huge security risk.
In today’s ruling, Judge Jeannette A. Vargas said that the lawsuit did not suggest that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and other senior officials were included in the restricted access, nor did they pose a threat of disclosure of sensitive and confidential information.
But Vargas did not approve the Trump administration’s request to remove the restrictions on political appointees more broadly.
She has set a hearing for the case on Friday.
Both Trump and Musk have pushed back strongly against the both Engelmayer and District Judge John Bates who has ordered the Trump administration to reinstate the many federal health webpages that the president had ordered be removed.
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