February 7, 2025, 7:31 PM 1:22 Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk arrives to the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, Jan. 20, 2025 in Washington. Chip Somodevilla/Pool via Reuters Twenty states are suing the Trump administration to block government employees associated with Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from accessing highly sensitive taxpayer records, including the Social Security numbers and bank account information of millions of Americans. The lawsuit -- filed by the 20 Democratic attorneys general -- alleged the breach of sensitive Treasury Department data "poses huge cybersecurity risks" and violates multiple federal laws. "Defendants' new expanded access policy poses huge cybersecurity risks, including risks to States and States' residents that their information will be used and processed, unchecked, in a manner not permitted by federal law," the lawsuit said. MORE: Trump 2nd term live updates: Trump terminates Biden's access to classified information Filed in the Southern District of New York, the lawsuit asked the court to issue an order that would prohibit so-called "special government employees" associated with DOGE from accessing records held by the Bureau of Fiscal Service (BFS), which functionally serves as the checkbook for the federal government. The lawsuit comes as Musk's unprecedented budget-slashing has impacted nearly every department of the federal government, prompting multiple federal lawsuits. On Wednesday, a federal judge temporarily blocked DOGE from accessing Treasury Department records, though two employees of the Treasury Department associated with Musk continue to have "read only" access to the records. "DOGE's access of BFS records puts vast amounts of funding for the States and their residents in peril and endangers the [personal identifiable information] of States' residents whose information is stored on the payment systems," the lawsuit said. The state attorneys general argued that DOGE is interfering with congressionally appropriated funds, violates the Administrative Procedures Act by being "arbitrary and capricious," and violates both separation of powers doctrine and Trump's obligation to faithfully execute the law. MORE: What to know about Elon Musk's government dismantling and the fight to stop him