A federal judge on Monday, blocked the government downsizing team created by President Donald Trump and spearheaded by billionaire Elon Musk from accessing sensitive data maintained by the US Education Department and the Office of Personnel Management.
District Judge, Deborah Boardman in Greenbelt, Maryland issued the temporary restraining order at the behest of a coalition of labour unions who argued that the agencies wrongly granted Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, access to records containing personal information on millions of Americans.
That information, the judge said, included Social Security numbers, dates of birth, home addresses, income and assets, citizenship status and disability status for current and former federal employees and student aid recipients. Meanwhile, the Trump administration had argued that a ruling blocking DOGE from accessing the information would impede the Republican president's ability to fulfill his agenda by limiting what information his advisors can access.
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