The Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) is not an official government department, but Musk's team has exacted wide-ranging changes to the US federal infrastructure with approval from the White House.

The White House DOGE office on Saturday ordered all federal workers be sent an email asking them to list the work tasks they'd completed over the week.

Judge Jeannette A. Vargas issued a preliminary injunction on Friday but said she may lift the ban if the Treasury Department certifies by March 24 that DOGE members have received required cybersecurity training.

The ruling found that DOGE access to the payment systems created a “realistic danger that confidential financial information will be disclosed.”

A U.S. judge on Friday extended a block on Elon Musk's government cost-cutting team known as DOGE from accessing Treasury Department systems responsible for trillions of dollars in payments. U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas in Manhattan granted a request from 19 Democratic state attorneys general for a preliminary injunction on DOGE's access to the systems,