President Trump rebuked a federal judge’s decision that the Treasury Department should block access to anyone “other than civil servants with a need for access to perform their job duties” from its payment systems.
President Trump responds to the decision by an unelected district court judge who assumed control over the entire executive branch:
“When a president can’t look for fraud and waste and abuse, we don’t have a country anymore.” pic.twitter.com/9sgCkM3ROR
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 9, 2025
“I disagree with it 100 percent; I think it’s crazy. We have to solve the efficiency problem; we have to solve the fraud, waste, abuse,” Trump told Fox News’s Bret Baier when asked for his take on the ruling in a pretaped interview that aired Sunday.
He later told reporters on Sunday that he was disappointed and called the ruling a disgrace.
“When a president can’t look for fraud and waste and abuse, we don’t have a country anymore. So, we’re very disappointed with the judges that would make such a ruling, but we have a long way to go. We have to look; we have to find all of the fraud that’s going on. We have tremendous fraud, tremendous waste and tremendous abuse and theft, by the way,” Trump said.
“No judge should frankly be allowed to make that kind of a decision, it’s a disgrace,” he added.
U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer’s overnight ruling Saturday explicitly prohibits special government employees and those detailed from outside the department from getting access to the Treasury Department systems, a designation that would cover billionaire technology entrepreneur Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
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