A federal judge temporarily restricted government ministry efficiency members from accessing the Treasury payment system the day before a DOGE employee linked to an offensive social media post .
US District Judge Colleen Coller Cotery I have issued an order On Wednesday, three union groups, the Alliance for Retired Americans, the United Nations of Service Employees, and the United Nations of Service Employees, filed a lawsuit against Treasury Secretary Scott Becent, who told him that he had a member information. – accused them of illegally sharing the masks with the cost-cutting team.
Former President Bill Clinton appointee, Coller Cotery, restricted access to the payment record system to only two DOGE employees.
The judge said two Doge workers, Tom Krause and Marko Elez, were “read-only” to payment records as part of their efforts to eliminate waste and fraud and modernize federal information technology. He ordered that access must be provided.
Krause, CEO of Cloud Software Group Inc., and Elez, an engineer who worked for Musk at SpaceX and X, were classified as “special government officials” by judges.
Both have offices at the Treasury Department, agents' email addresses and offices to access uncategorized Treasury Department information, according to Bloomberg News.
Temporary orders will prevent Doge from making changes to its payment record system or the Treasury will be able to share data related to payments of trillions of dollars each year.
Elez suddenly resigned from Doge on Thursday after the Wall Street Journal I led him to a racist post. Made from X.
The 25-year-old engineer reportedly tweeted support for the “eugenic immigration policy” a few weeks before President Trump's inauguration, expressing his hatred of the Indian people.
Read X posts from an account linked to Elez, “Normalize India's hatred,” according to the Wall Street Journal.
The outlet linked X account @nullllptr to Elez after revealing what he had done previously with handle @marko_elez and explaining as a SpaceX employee.
“Just for the record, I was racist before it turned out to be cool,” read another post reportedly made by a former Doge worker last July.
“If both Gaza and Israel were wiped out from the surface of the earth, I wouldn't mind at all,” Erez reportedly tweeted last June.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told the Wall Street Journal that Elez resigned from his role after being asked to comment on the disturbing post.
