Demands on the Treasury and Bessent for granting access to Musk's Doge cryptocurrency

The Department of the Treasury was accused of violating federal law by granting Elon Musk's team responsible for enforcing government efficiency access to a large amount of personal and financial information, setting the stage for a legal showdown over the Trump administration's flagship effort to reduce the size of government.

Labor groups, including the AFL-CIO and the Alliance for Retired Americans, claimed in a lawsuit filed on Monday that the Treasury and Scott Bessent, who heads the agency, had illegally allowed the records of their members to be shared with Musk's group known as Doge. President Donald Trump has put Musk in charge of an effort to modernize federal information technology.

Trump explained that Musk, the richest person in the world, does not have the power to stop payments by himself without approval, but was granted access to the Treasury's systems to monitor federal spending.