Nineteen attorneys general, including New York’s Letitia James, accused the president of failing to faithfully execute the nation’s laws when he let Mr. Musk comb through federal computer systems.

A judge blocked Elon Musk’s newly established efficiency team access to some Treasury Department information after a group of 19 mostly Democrat-led states sued President Donald Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent for allowing it.

A federal judge on Friday declined to block Elon Musk's government cost-cutting department from accessing the U.S. Department of Labor's systems, an initial setback for the government employee unions resisting his efforts to shrink the federal bureaucracy.