ELON MUSK (Shutterstock).

Attorney generals from 19 states filed lawsuits against President Donald Trump on Friday to block Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from getting access to personal data and the account numbers for the Social Security and banks for millions.

According to the Associated Press, the suit alleged that allowing Musk’s DOGE access to to Treasury Department’s central payment system breaks federal law.

DOGE – which is not an official department of the federal government – was created with the premise of seeking to curb “wasteful” government spending.

“President Trump does not have the power to give away Americans’ private information to anyone he chooses and and he cannot cut federal payments approved by Congress,” said New York Attorney General Letitia James, whose office filed the lawsuit. California is one of the states in the lawsuit.

The White House has not made a reply to the legal action.
DOGE members have “read only” access to the data, according to the Treasury Department.

Judge blocks USAID paid leave

Judge Carl Nichols of the U.S. District Court of Appeals on Friday said he would issue a temporary restraining order freezing some elements of the Trump administration’s actions to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development.

JUDGE blocks paid leave for USAID workers (Shutterstock).

According to The New York Times, Nichols – a Trump appointee – said he would pause the “immediate” administrative leave of 2,200 USAID employees as well as a plan to pull nearly all of the agency’s workers from overseas postings within a month.

The request for the restraining order came from a union representing federal workers who claimed that those affected would suffer “irreparable harm.”

USAID is the agency that operates foreign aid missions, many of them humanitarian including public health, education and disaster relief.

Missing plane crashed; no survivors

An aircraft carrying 10 people which was reporting missing on Thursday has been found crashed on Friday with no survivors.

United Press International is reporting that the U.S. Coast Guard said the crash site is about 34 miles southeast of Nome. Three bodies were found at the scene. The others are believed to be concealed by the debris.

The plane was a Cessna Caravan with nine passengers and one pilot on board. Its last known position was 12 miles off shore on its way to Nome.

Weather : Warmer, then cooler

Temperatures will rise and then cool in the coming days for West Orange County. Saturday will start with a daytime high of 66 and an overnight low of 48. Skies will be cloudy. There will be a spike to 69 (50) on Sunday with partly cloudy skies, followed by a drop on Monday to 62 (47) with partly cloudy skies. Tuesday will dip again to 60 (45) with similar skies.

Great Thoughts

“There are three classes of people. Those who see. Those who see when shown. Those who do not see.”
– Leonardo Da Vinci