The lawsuit accused Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent of giving Musk's Department of Government Efficiency access to sensitive information.

The Treasury Department was accused of breaking federal law by giving Elon Musk’s team of government efficiency enforcers access to a trove of personal and financial information — setting up a legal showdown over the Trump administration’s signature effort to shrink the government.

The Treasury Department’s payment system has been likened to the government’s checkbook and makes $6 trillion in disbursements a year.

The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a sleepy part of the Treasury Department. It’s also where, sources say, a 25-year-old engineer tied to Elon Musk has admin privileges over the code that controls Social Security payments,

Elon Musk is rapidly consolidating control over large swaths of the federal government with President Donald Trump’s blessing.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday to create a U.S. sovereign wealth fund and suggested that it could be used to purchase TikTok. Trump has said previously it could be funded by "tariffs and other intelligent things," per Reuters. Trump signed an executive order last month to delay the TikTok ban deadline by 75 days.