Moving fast and breaking things has long been the mantra of Silicon Valley, with results that haven’t always been appreciated. Elon Musk and his young adjutants have been racing through government agencies in similar fashion, with little outside supervision and in ways deemed illegal by a growing chorus of alarmed critics.

Restrictions will remain in place for now while labor unions pursue a lawsuit over access to payments information.

The Washington Post reports that a court in Washington has restricted Elon Musk's team's access to the U.S. Treasury's payment system following a complaint about a data protection violation. The court in Washington decided to limit Elon Musk's team,

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk have upended the federal workforce, firing top officials, grinding billion-dollar agencies to a halt and convincing tens of thousands of workers to voluntarily leave their jobs.

Judge pauses Trump’s ‘buyout’ offer to federal workers A federal judge paused Thursday’s deadline for federal employees to accept the Trump administration’s so-called “deferred resignation” offer while more court proceedings on the program’s legality play out.