A federal judge extended a block on Elon Musk’s government cost-cutting team from accessing payment systems at the US Treasury Department on Friday (Saturday AEDT), while another judge allowed the billionaire’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers to access records at health, labour and consumer financial protection agencies.

Musk’s DOGE has swept through federal agencies since Republican Donald Trump became president last month and put the chief executive of carmaker Tesla in charge of rooting out wasteful spending as part of Trump’s dramatic overhaul of government, which included thousands of job cuts on Friday.

Reuters