Judge Temporarily Blocks DOGE From Accessing Federal Student Aid Data

The agency cannot see or use information from more than a dozen internal databases related to student finance until next Monday.

The U.S. Department of Education building in Washington on July 21, 2007. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

A federal judge has temporarily barred Elon Musk’s government efficiency team from accessing federal student loan and financial aid information stored at the U.S. Department of Education.

In an order issued Tuesday evening, Judge Randolph Moss of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia barred any members or associates of Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from seeing or using information from more than a dozen internal databases related to student finance until next Monday.