By all accounts, DOGE wanted to do something very different in how they collected information on how the government spends its cash. Rather than do "ordinary" audits or go through the agencies, they wanted to find that out through the Treasury payments systems. The problem is that the Treasury payments system has a lot of information in it that goes beyond "What the government spends its money on," and that information isn't permissibly shared outside of Treasury. So Treasury got enjoined, at least for now - albaby

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I just hope they can figure it out quickly so we can get back to finding waste and abuse and poor decision making. I see no reason DOGE needs PII for anything they are doing. I suspect that Treasury was taking too long for the pace of this team so DOGE just tried to go around them for expediency and not because of any particular interest in PII.

I support the laws limiting access to TPS and especially PII, so Treasury Department, get busy on a workaround. How long does it take to make a copy of the entire TPS database substituting John Smith, 123 Main Street and 999-99-9999 (you get the idea) for every morsel of PII as you make the copy. A good programmer could do it in a matter of few days days, so get on with it Treasury dept while you wait for the Judge to finish up what could end up being a long drawn out series of rulings.

MAGA, it's good for what ails you!