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 government payments.

Judge Jeannette Vargas of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York kept in place a temporary restraining order that bars the Treasury Department from granting DOGE liaisons access to payment records, systems or other data platforms containing personal or financial information.