A federal judge in New York says there is public interest in protecting the security of personal details and banking information.

The ruling found that DOGE access to the payment systems created a “realistic danger that confidential financial information will be disclosed.”

A U.S. judge on Friday extended a block on Elon Musk's government cost-cutting team known as DOGE from accessing Treasury Department systems responsible for trillions of dollars in payments. U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas in Manhattan granted a request from 19 Democratic state attorneys general for a preliminary injunction on DOGE's access to the systems,