Transcript of Judge temporarily blocks DOGE from accessing sensitive taxpayer data

Now to a federal judge temporarily blocking DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, from accessing the Treasury Department's payment systems. This after 19 states filed a lawsuit accusing the Elon Musk Agency of overstepping its authority. Protests across the country over cuts to the federal government. Here's ABC's Senior White House Correspondent, Selena Wayne.

Tonight, legal battles escalating as President Trump and Elon Musk attempt to overhaul the federal government. A federal judge blocking Musk's Department of Government Efficiency team from accessing the Treasury Department's data and payment systems. After 19 states sued the Trump administration for giving Musk and his allies virtually unfettered access to sensitive personal data, including social security numbers and bank account information of millions of Americans. The lawsuit argues the expanded access poses huge cybersecurity risks and accuses Musk of attempting to block federal funds from reaching reaching beneficiaries who do not align with the President's political agenda. The judge putting the move on pause, citing an increased risk of leaks and hacking. The world's richest man expanding his reach, gaining access to at least 10 viral agencies as he tries to slash government spending. The key target so far, USAID, the relief agency that provides food to millions of malnourished children around the world. And another federal judge putting the brakes on Musk's plan to dismantle the agency and pull thousands of staffers off the job. The President defending Musk's role.

I'll tell him to go here, go there. He does it. He's got a very capable group of people.

One of those people A young former SpaceX employee named Marco Alés, who resigned this week after a Wall Street Journal report linked him to a series of racist posts on social media, including, I was racist before it was cool. You could not pay me to marry 'I'm very outside my ethnicity and normalize Indian hate. ' Vice President JD Vance defending the staff are writing, I obviously disagree with some of Elez's posts, but I don't think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid's life, so I Today, bring him back. ' Musk responding, he will be brought back to air as human to forgive divine.

' Selena Wang joins us now from the White House. And Selena, President Trump and Musk have been making these moves at break-next speed. So what's next on their agenda?

Well, wait. President Trump says he wants Elon Musk to go even further in his cost-cutting, saying that he'll be looking at the Department of Education and the Pentagon next. But this raises potential conflicts of interest because Elon Musk's own companies have billions of dollars in contracts with the military. Whit.

Selena, thank you.