A judge on Saturday reportedly blocked Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) from accessing personal financial data from the Treasury Department, resulting in a MAGA meltdown.
U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer over the weekend issued a preliminary injunction to halt access, ordering the world's richest man and his team to destroy copies of records they already received.
As BBC reports, "The move comes after 19 state attorneys general sued the Trump administration after Doge, a cost-cutting initiative led by Musk, was given access to the records."
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The news wasn't taken well by allies of Trump, including Charlie Kirk, to whom Trump's campaign farmed out much of its ground game in the 2024 election.
"New York Judge Paul Engelmayer just forbade all political appointees — including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent — from accessing Dept. of Treasury data, all based on Blueanon conspiracy theories!!" Kirk shouted in one post. "Those theories couldn't be challenged because the order was EX PARTE — meaning Trump's lawyers weren't warned, and couldn't weigh in. Only Democrat Attorneys General were allowed to argue."
He continued, "The judge cites no law or logic to support this unprecedented order, because it defies both."
"The judge’s ruling is, in essence, that Scott Bessent simply occupies a ceremonial position without real power, like the King of England," Kirk said. "This is a grenade thrown into the functioning of the Treasury Department. It forbids the elected government from accessing information about budget and finances. Instead, only the permanent, deep-state government can know what's being spent."
Republican Senator Mike Lee said in response, "This sounds like a good time to file a petition for an extraordinary writ of mandamus."
Popular right-wing influencer AXL also weighed in, saying, "Secretary of the Treasury functions as the CFO of the U.S. government."
"If the CFO is denied access to spending information, how can he do his job?" he asked. "The people elected Donald Trump, who appointed Scott Bessent to run the Treasury — not bureaucrats."
Another self-identified conservative influencer, John Jackson, said, "This right here is a major test for the Trump Administration. Will they allow a crooked judge to tell them they can't access their OWN DATA???? The response from DOJ should be the legal equivalent of FU."