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Stephen Miller laments ‘unconstitutional’ ruling barring DOGE from Treasury

By and 02/09/2025 | updated 6 months ago

White House Deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller blasted the U.S. district judge who ruled against the Department of Government Efficiency’s investigation into the Treasury Department.

Paul A. Engelmayer issued an emergency order for DOGE staff to “destroy any and all copies of material downloaded from the Treasury Department’s records and systems” due to impending litigation against the new department of the White House Office of Management and Budget. Investigations into the U.S. Treasury paused as a result.

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 “So, as you’re aware, a radical left judge said that the Secretary of the Treasury cannot access the Treasury computer system. This isn’t just unconstitutional. That ruling is an assault on the very idea of democracy itself,” Miller said on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures.  

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“Donald Trump is engaging in the most important restoration of democracy in over a century by saying that we are going to restore power to the people through their elected president and his appointed officers,” Miller said. “But this nonsense where we have rogue, unelected, unaccountable, and previously unfireable bureaucrats who do whatever the hell they want with no one telling them and no one controlling them, we’re not going to let that happen anymore.”

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Engelmayer ruled that further investigation could cause “irreparable harm” because the department wields Americans’ Social Security numbers and bank account information. This echoed the Treasury’s statement from days before the ruling that claimed the department “is committed to safeguarding the integrity and security of the system, given the implications of any compromise or disruption to the U.S. economy.”

The next court hearing in this matter is slated for Feb. 14.

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