The injunction is the latest in a line of legal obstacles to confront the Trump administration as Musk attempts to shrink the size and cost of government.
A federal judge has temporarily barred Elon Musk’s team of financial inquisitors from accessing the US Treasury’s payments system, the latest in a line of legal obstacles to confront the Trump administration as it attempts to shrink the public service.
The temporary order also directed anyone from Musk’s team who accessed such information to destroy the material they had already downloaded. Musk quickly announced the 25-year-old staff member would be brought back. “To err is human, to forgive divine,” he said.
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