Internet reports that a U.S. judge has extended a temporary ban on Musk's Ministry of Efficiency accessing the Treasury's payment system. In the early morning of February 8, local time, a federal judge in the United States temporarily prevented the Department of Government Efficiency led by Musk from accessing the government systems used by the U.S. Treasury Department to process trillions of dollars in payments, citing the risk of inappropriate disclosure of sensitive and confidential information. The order was issued by U.S. District Judge Engel in Manhattan after a coalition of 19 U.S. states, most of which are led by Democrats, filed a lawsuit claiming that the Department of Government Efficiency led by Musk had no access to the U.S. Treasury Department's systems.