WASHINGTON—Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk led a conservative chorus criticizing a federal judge who for now has restricted the ability of Musk allies to access the Treasury Department payment system,

A judge ruled Saturday that the activities of Elon Musk’s government cost-cutting effort risk “the disclosure of sensitive and confidential information” and render them “more vulnerable than before to hacking.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk's government efficiency team has been temporarily blocked from accessing certain government systems, according to a federal judge's ruling on Saturday.

Vice President JD Vance wrote on social media Sunday that judges “aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power” after a federal judge blocked the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing data within the Treasury Department.

The order came in response to a lawsuit filed by 19 attorneys general accusing the president of failing to faithfully execute the nation’s laws when he let DOGE comb through federal computer systems.

A New York federal judge issued an order blocking DOGE's access to treasury payments after 19 Democratic state attorneys general sued the Trump administration.

The judge also ordered Musk and his team to “immediately destroy any and all copies of material downloaded from Treasury Department’s records and systems, if any.”

The order requires those who have accessed payment records without proper security clearance to destroy them.

A New York judge has temporarily barred Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing a sensitive Treasury payment system, after over a dozen Democratic states sued late Friday—the latest in a slew of legal actions as Democrats and others fight President Donald Trump and cost-cutting czar Musk in court.