“We’re pleased that the court acted quickly to put in safeguards to protect people’s personal information until the facts are sorted out,” said an attorney with the Public Citizen Litigation Group. A federal judge on Thursday issued an interim order limiting access to a critical U.S. Treasury Department payment system that members of billionaire Elon […]
Standing beside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump said that “the U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip,” which would be emptied of Palestinians. U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the United States will “take over” Gaza after emptying the embattled enclave of nearly all its native Palestinians, sparking a firestorm of criticism that included allegations of […]
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday paused new 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian goods exported to the United States for a month after speaking with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Sheinbaum said she would dispatch 10,000 National Guard troops to try to curb the flow of the deadly […]
“I can think of no good reason why political operators who have demonstrated a blatant disregard for the law would need access to these sensitive, mission-critical systems,” Sen. Ron Wyden said. Elon Musk and his team at the Department of Government Efficiency—or DOGE—have been granted access to a sensitive Treasury Department payment system that contains […]