US courts halt DOGE access to Treasury records, USAID furlough | Donald Trump News

The judgments are the latest in the growing series Blocking Trump and Musk’s Disruption of the Government.

Court Judgements in the United States have blocked efforts by President Donald Trump’s Team to Access Treasury Department Records and Lay Off Staff at the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

Early on Saturday, US District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer Blocked Elon Musk’s Department of Government EfficiencyAlso known as Doge, from Accessing Treasury Department Records.

A Day Earlier, US District Judge Carl Nichols Blocked an Order that Sought to Put Thousands of Overseas USAID WORKERS ON ABRUPT ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE.

The judgments are the latest to see obstruct the Trump team’s contracted effort to disrupt government institutions.

With lawsuits from states, cities, democrat legislators, labor unions and advocacy groups piling up, several orders for stops or panuses on white house moves have been issued.

Dog, which is pushing for access to records across institutions, has ignited widespread concern Among Critics over the billionaire’s increasing power.

Usaid has been a major target of the chaotic shake-up. All us aid has been frozen, and the agency, which distributes humanitarian aid globally, is being threatened with closure, or a reduction in staff from 10,000 to just 300.

The drive has trigged chaos in USAID’s Global Network and Allegations of Weaeaking us influence on the world stage.

‘Administrative Leave in Syria’

Engelmayer’s order was issued after 19 Democratic Attorneys General Sued to Halt The Dog Access to Records That Contain Sensitive Personal Data Such as Social Security and Bank Account Numbers. He set a hearing for February.

“This unelected group, Led by the World’s Richest Man, is not authorized to have this information, and they explicitly sought this unauthourised access to illegally block payments that millions rely on, payment for healthcare, chars and other esential programs,” New York Attorney General Letitia James, whose office filed the lawsuit, said in a video message released by her office on Friday.

Nichols’ ‘very limited’ temporary order blocking the Trump Administration’s changes to usaid was based on the concern that furloughed workers and their families would be required to move their families back to the us within just 30 days in order .

In its rush to shut down the agency and its programs abroad, some workers had been cut off from government emails and other communication systems they needed in case of a health or safety emergency, Nichols said.

“Administrative leave in Syria is not the same as administrative leave in Bethesda,” the judge said in his order.

Still, he declined a request from two federal employee associations to grant a temporary block on a Trump administration funding freeze that has shut down the six-decade-old agency, pending more hearings.