The Supreme Court ruled Friday that President Trump’s team of cost-cutters at the Department of Government Efficiency can access Social Security systems containing the personal information of millions of Americans.

The high court’s ruling overturns a preliminary injunction issued in April by a Maryland federal judge blocking DOGE staffers attached to the Social Security Administration (SSA) from accessing non-anonymized data and making any changes to the computer code or software used by the agency.

The legal victory is a first for the Trump administration at the Supreme Court in a case involving the team formerly led by billionaire Elon Musk.

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