The orders were another example of the Supreme Court granting most of the Trump administration’s emergency requests to lift or scale back lower court rulings blocking his initiatives while legal challenges play out.

The high court said a judge’s directive allowing a watchdog group to examine DOGE’s recommendations for cost savings at executive branch agencies was “not appropriately tailored.”

The court put on hold Washington-based U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper's orders for DOGE to respond to requests by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington for information about its operations.