Trump gave Musk access to confidential data from the Treasury. However, the US Department of Justice has agreed to limit access, allowing two employees of the Treasury Department associated with Doge to access information only on a “reading” basis.
Twelve states, led by New York, announced Thursday they will sue Donald Trump’s administration for allowing Elon Musk and officials of the government efficiency department, which he directs, accessed sensitive citizens’ financial information.
US President Donald Trump charged the controversial entrepreneur Elon Musk to manage the department of government efficiency (Doge) to reduce the dimension of the federal government and save in theory thousands of millions of dollars to the public purse.
For this purpose, Trump granted Musk access to confidential data from the Treasury. However, the US Department of Justice has agreed to limit access, allowing two employees of the Treasury Department associated with Doge to access information only on a “reading” basis.
“As a richest man in the world, Elon Musk is not used to what they tell him ‘, but in our country no one is above the law,” says the attorneys’ general prosecutors, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware , Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, Rhode Island and Vermont, in a joint statement issued and quoted by EFE, to announce the intention to process the administration led by Donald Trump.
“The president does not have the power to publicize our private information to anyone who wants and cannot cut the federal payments approved by Congress,” they maintain.
Prosecutors also indicate that Doge’s intention is to block critical payments that millions of Americans depend on their health care, child care and other essential programs.
