Moving fast and breaking things has long been the mantra of Silicon Valley, with results that haven’t always been appreciated. Elon Musk and his young adjutants have been racing through government agencies in similar fashion, with little outside supervision and in ways deemed illegal by a growing chorus of alarmed critics.

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

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency faces its first major legal hurdle today when a judge mulls blocking the agency from accessing Treasury Department data.