From the BBC
New York Attorney General Letitia James says she and others will be suing the Trump administration over attempts by the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) to access Treasury Department payment systems.
James says Elon Musk, who heads Doge, has been given access to "some of our country's most sensitive data".
Earlier this week, US media reported that Musk's team had been granted access by the Trump administration to the federal payments system in the US that controls the flow of trillions of dollars in funds every year.
James argues that Musk is unauthorised to access that sensitive information, and that him doing so is "unlawful, unprecedented and unacceptable."
"Doge has no authority to access this information," James says, adding that their goal is to block payments that "millions of Americans rely on".
“In defense of our constitution, our right to privacy, and the essential funding that individuals and communities nationwide are counting on, we will be filing a lawsuit to stop this injustice," she says.
The lawsuit will be filed by James, as well as the attorney generals of Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Minnesota, Rhode Island and others
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