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A federal judge early Saturday blocked Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” from accessing Treasury Department records that contain sensitive personal data such as Social Security and bank account numbers for millions of Americans.

The order came in response to a lawsuit filed by 19 attorneys general accusing the president of failing to faithfully execute the nation’s laws when he let DOGE comb through federal computer systems.