Twelve of the fifty states of the United States, with that of New York at the head, they have announced on Thursday that they will sue Donald Trump for allowing (Doge), who run the richest man in the world, have access to the Payment systems of the Treasury Department, with sensitive personal data of US citizens.
Last week, the Treasury Department granted AA the office created by Trump to introduce Elon Musk into the organization chart of his government and reduce public spending, granted access to the maximum shareholder of Tesla, Spacex and the social network X, access to the payment system on which the disbursements of the funds for government agencies depend. The resignation of a treasure officer who opposed the granting of Carta Blanca to Doge, raided the way for Musk to obtain that access to databases with private information, bank data and other highly sensitive records. The decision is “unprecedented and unacceptable,” prosecutors say in a statement.
In that same note, the legal representatives of the 12 states: New York, California, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Minnesota, Nevada, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Rhode Island, Vermont, warn that Donald Trump does not have the power to share the Financial data of American citizens “whom he chooses”, nor does he have it to cut the federal fund payments that have been approved in Congress. “The richest man in the world may be accustomed to being accustomed to him ‘no’, but in our country nobody is above the law,” prosecutors say ..
In addition, they warn that the objective of the Department of Musk is to block essential payments for health care, child care and other programs that, if they get to cancel, could lead to an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. Many families depend on these funds to meet basic needs and the interruption of payments would especially affect the most vulnerable. Given what they understand as the direct threat to the welfare state of citizens, the general prosecutors of the dozen states have decided to go to courts to stop the measure.
Although Doge has received the approval to access the data, the Department of Justice has limited its capabilities. According to a document made on Wednesday, only two employees associated with the Musk office will be able to access the databases and will do so in “only reading” mode, without the possibility of making changes or approveing or stopping the approved transactions. This is a proposal that Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly must decide, who studies another complaint from three unions in which they have demanded to suspend access to the treasure records.
Donald Trump put Elon Musk at the head of Doge to reduce the size of the federal government and, according to the administration, save billions of dollars to the public treasury. To do this, he gave direct access to sensitive financial data. An investigation of the magazine Wired He has revealed that the South African businessman has hired six engineers between 19 and 25 years, without experience in public administration or outstanding curriculum. Since they assumed their functions, they have closed the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the world’s largest state humanitarian entity, and have canceled contracts for workers of equity, diversity and inclusion programs.
