Trump 100% disagrees with federal judges crazy ruling blocking DOGE from Treasury system
President Donald Trump “100 percent” disagrees with a federal judge’s ruling on Saturday that bars the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing the Treasury Department, he said during an exclusive interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier. “Nineteen states attorneys general filed a lawsuit, and early Saturday a judge agreed with them to restrict Elon Musk and his government efficiency team, DOGE, from accessing Treasury Department payment and data systems.They said there was a risk of ‘irreparable harm.’ What do you make of that? And does that slow you down and what you want to do?” Baier asked Trump in the interview clip. “No, I disagree with it 100%.
I think it’s crazy.And we have to solve the efficiency problem.
We have to solve the fraud, waste, abuse, all the things that have gone into the government.You take a look at the USAID, the kind of fraud in there,” Trump responded. US District Judge for the Southern District of New York Paul Engelmayer, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, issued a temporary restraining order Saturday that sided with 19 Democratic state attorneys general who claimed that giving DOGE “full access” to the Treasury’s payment systems violates the law.
The lawsuit was spearheaded by New York Attorney General Letitia James.The judge’s sweeping order, issued Saturday, bars DOGE from accessing the Treasury system until at least Feb.14, when Engelmayer scheduled a hearing to revisit the matter. The language of the order specifically bars “political appointees, special government employees, and any government employee detailed from an agency outside the Treasury Department access to Treasury Department payment systems or any other data maintained by the Treasury Department containing personally identifiable information.” Trump, Secretary Scott Bessent and the US Treasury are named as defendants in the case. Musk, Vice President JD Vance and other conservatives aligned with Trump have sl...