President Trump Responds to Judge Blocking DOGE: “We Don’t Have a Country Anymore”

President Trump just responded to a federal ruling blocking DOGE’s access to Treasury Department payment systems.

A federal judge made the ruling to block Elon Musk’s team from accessing key Treasury payment systems until at least this Friday, February 14th, when there will be another court hearing.

This effectively prevents DOGE from making any progress towards their goal of ridding the government of excess waste and corruption.

President Trump is pointing out how serious and deep this issue is, telling reporters earlier today,

“When a president can’t look for fraud and waste and abuse, we don’t have a country anymore.”

Watch President Trump’s full response here:

President Trump responds to the decision by an unelected district court judge who assumed control over the entire executive branch:

"When a president can't look for fraud and waste and abuse, we don't have a country anymore." pic.twitter.com/9sgCkM3ROR

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 9, 2025

The Hill reported:

President Trump rebuked a federal judge’s decision that the Treasury Department should block access to anyone “other than civil servants with a need for access to perform their job duties” from its payment systems.

“I disagree with it 100 percent; I think it’s crazy. We have to solve the efficiency problem; we have to solve the fraud, waste, abuse,” Trump told Fox News’s Bret Baier when asked for his take on the ruling in a pretaped interview that aired Sunday.

He later told reporters on Sunday that he was disappointed and called the ruling a disgrace.

“When a president can’t look for fraud and waste and abuse, we don’t have a country anymore. So, we’re very disappointed with the judges that would make such a ruling, but we have a long way to go. We have to look; we have to find all of the fraud that’s going on. We have tremendous fraud, tremendous waste and tremendous abuse and theft, by the way,” Trump said.

“No judge should frankly be allowed to make that kind of a decision, it’s a disgrace,” he added.

U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer’s overnight ruling Saturday explicitly prohibits special government employees and those detailed from outside the department from getting access to the Treasury Department systems, a designation that would cover billionaire technology entrepreneur Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

President Trump’s allies are echoing his sentiment, with Vice President JD Vance calling the federal judge’s action“illegal.”

The Vice President posted this on X earlier this morning:

If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal.

If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that's also illegal.

Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power.

— JD Vance (@JDVance) February 9, 2025

Elon Musk has also responded, calling for the federal judge who blocked DOGE to be impeached — stat!

We reported on that here:

Elon Musk Calls For Impeachment of “Corrupt Judge” Who Blocked DOGE