A federal judge on Tuesday lifted the restrictions on access to the Treasury’s payment system.
As previously reported, corrupt Obama Judge Paul Englemayer issued an ex parte Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) forbidding all of Trump appointees, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, from accessing Department of Treasury data in response to a lawsuit filed by 19 Democrat state attorneys general.
The case was ultimately assigned to a Biden judge for a decision.
In February US District Judge Jeannette Vargas, a Biden appointee, responded to the Trump Admin’s emergency motion to dissolve, clarify or modify Englemayer’s ex parte TRO.
The Trump Admin argued in their motion papers that “the TRO contravenes Article II of the Constitution to the extent it applies to political appointees, in particular the Secretary of Treasury and other senior Treasury leadership.”
Judge Vargas previously kept most of the restrictions in place, but she allowed Secretary Bessent and other in Treasury leadership to access the payment system.
“There is nothing in the record to indicate that, prior to January 20, 2025, any statute, regulation, or agency policy prohibited the Secretary of Treasury or any other Senate-confirmed officer within the Treasury Department’s senior leadership from accessing any Treasury Department payment record, payment systems, or any other data systems maintained by the Treasury Department containing personally identifiable information and/or confidential financial information of payees,” Judge Vargas wrote in an 8-page order reviewed by The Gateway Pundit.
On Tuesday, Judge Vargas lifted the ban on DOGE workers from accessing the Treasury Department’s payment system and data.
Judge Vargas said the Trump Administration showed it was properly vetting DOGE workers.
Politico reported:
A federal judge in New York on Tuesday cleared the way for the Treasury Department’s entire DOGE team to access the federal government’s sensitive data systems that manage trillions of dollars in payments each year.
U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas lifted the final legal restriction barring four Treasury DOGE staffers from accessing Treasury’s payments infrastructure. Vargas relaxed her earlier order, finding the Trump administration had shown it set up a process to appropriately vet and train the employees.
The ruling marks a win for the Trump administration, which set off a political and legal firestorm earlier this year for granting access to the payment systems to Elon Musk’s DOGE operation. The payment systems contain sensitive financial data on tens of millions of American citizens and businesses.
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