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A federal judge dismissed a Democrat-led lawsuit on Wednesday challenging the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) access to the Treasury Department’s payment systems.

In a 17-page order, New York-based District Judge Jeannette Vargas, a Biden appointee, ruled that a legal challenge by the Empire State and other Democrat-led states against DOGE’s Treasury access is moot because the executive order establishing DOGE has since expired. The lawsuit was spearheaded by New York Attorney General Letitia James, who has a history of targeting Donald Trump during his time as an individual citizen and as president.

The lawfare centers around a January 2025 executive order signed by Trump establishing the Elon Musk-led DOGE, which aimed to improve federal efficiency and root out agencies’ waste, fraud, and abuse. The directive called for each department to assemble its own DOGE team to accomplish these objectives and included a termination date of July 4, 2026.

In describing allegations from challengers’ initial complaint, Vargas said that the Treasury granted its DOGE team access to the agency’s Bureau of........

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