Restrictions will remain in place for now while labor unions pursue a lawsuit over access to payments information.

The elevation of Tom Krause to a more powerful role at Treasury will likely inflame an ongoing backlash over DOGE.

The Treasury Department will make an ally of billionaire Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service the head of the department that oversees the nation’s powerful payment systems after ousting the career civil servant who previously held the post,