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

A federal judge in Manhattan has extended a ban on Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency accessing sensitive Treasury Department information, but rejected broader restrictions sought by 19 Democratic state attorneys general who sued over the issue.

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,

Americans see the specific programs targeted by Elon Musk’s bureaucracy-slashing efforts more favorably than DOGE or Musk, according to a recent Economist/YouGov poll. Presidential cost-cutter Elon Musk claims he has a popular mandate to take a hatchet to government in his quest to find $2 trillion in savings.

President Donald Trump said that he likes the idea of giving some of the savings from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency back to U.S. citizens as a kind of dividend

DOGE has been in the news for its role in cutting federal workers. Here's everything you need to know about it and how Elon Musk is involved.