A judge’s ruling Friday to extend a temporary block on the Department of Government Efficiency’s access to the Treasury Department’s payment systems shows that Washington’s “swamp will not go quietly in the night,” Rep. Aaron Bean, the co-chairman of the House DOGE Caucus, said on Newsmax Saturday. 

“This is not by coincidence,” the Florida Republican said. “This judge was picked out because they knew the answer they were going to get. The other side picks out judges that are going to throw monkey wrenches into DOGE’s plans.”

U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas in Manhattan said at a hearing Friday that she would delay a ruling on a request from 19 Democrat state attorneys general for a longer preliminary injunction against DOGE, but left in place a temporary restraining order issued last week. 

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