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President Donald Trump "100 percent" disagrees with a national judge's ruling connected Saturday that bars the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing the Treasury Department, helium said during an exclusive interrogation with Fox News' Bret Baier.
"Nineteen states attorneys wide filed a lawsuit, and aboriginal Saturday a justice agreed with them to restrict Elon Musk and his authorities ratio team, DOGE, from accessing Treasury Department outgo and information systems. They said determination was a hazard of ‘irreparable harm.’ What bash you marque of that? And does that dilatory you down and what you privation to do?" Baier asked Trump successful the interrogation clip.
"No, I disagree with it 100%. I deliberation it's crazy. And we person to lick the ratio problem. We person to lick the fraud, waste, abuse, each the things that person gone into the government. You instrumentality a look astatine the USAID, the benignant of fraud successful there," Trump responded.
U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York Paul Engelmayer, an appointee of erstwhile President Barack Obama, issued a impermanent restraining bid Saturday that sided with 19 Democratic authorities attorneys wide who claimed that giving DOGE "full access" to the Treasury’s outgo systems violates the law. The suit was spearheaded by New York Attorney General Letitia James.
The judge's sweeping order, issued Saturday, bars DOGE from accessing the Treasury strategy until astatine slightest Feb. 14, erstwhile Engelmayer scheduled a proceeding to revisit the matter.
The connection of the bid specifically bars "political appointees, peculiar authorities employees, and immoderate authorities worker elaborate from an bureau extracurricular the Treasury Department entree to Treasury Department outgo systems oregon immoderate different information maintained by the Treasury Department containing personally identifiable information." Trump, Secretary Scott Bessent and the U.S. Treasury are named arsenic defendants successful the case.
Musk, Vice President JD Vance and different conservatives aligned with Trump person slammed the order.
"If a justice tried to archer a wide however to behaviour a subject operation, that would beryllium illegal. If a justice tried to bid the lawyer wide successful however to usage her discretion arsenic a prosecutor, that's besides illegal. Judges aren't allowed to power the executive's morganatic power," Vance posted to X connected Sunday of the order.
Trump spoke with Baier successful an exclusive interrogation with Fox News up of the Super Bowl, which Trump volition attend. The brace discussed the president's agelong emotion of sports and football, arsenic good arsenic authorities and DOGE.
"We're talking astir hundreds of millions of dollars of wealth that's going to places wherever it shouldn't beryllium going," Trump said erstwhile asked astir what DOGE has recovered portion auditing national agencies successful hunt of authorities overspending, fraud and corruption.
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"Where if I work a list, you'd say, this is ridiculous, and you've work the aforesaid database and determination are galore that you haven't adjacent seen, it's crazy. It's a large scam. Now there's immoderate bully wealth and we tin bash that through, immoderate 1 of a number. I deliberation I'd alternatively springiness it to Marco Rubio implicit astatine the State Department. Let him instrumentality attraction of the fewer bully ones. So, I don't cognize if it's kickbacks oregon what's going on, but the people. Look, I ran connected this, and the radical privation maine to find it. And I've had a large assistance with Elon Musk, who's been terrific," helium continued.
Baier besides asked Trump astir his caller comments about Canada becoming the U.S.' 51st authorities and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeay saying past week that Trump's tendency to get the federation is simply a "a existent thing."
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"Yeah, it is," Trump said erstwhile asked astir Trudeau's remark. "I deliberation Canada would beryllium overmuch amended disconnected being a 51st authorities due to the fact that we suffer $200 cardinal a twelvemonth with Canada, and I'm not going to fto that happen. It's excessively much. Why are we paying $200 cardinal a twelvemonth fundamentally successful subsidy to Canada? Now, if they're our 51st state, I don't caput doing it."
Trump volition walk his Sunday evening successful New Orleans, wherever the Chiefs and Eagles will look disconnected successful the Super Bowl. Trump is expected to instrumentality to the White House connected Sunday evening pursuing the game.
Baier's afloat interrogation with Trump volition aerial Monday during "Special Report with Bret Baier."
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