NEW YORK, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Two federal judges will

consider on Friday whether Elon Musk's government cost-cutting

team known as DOGE will have access to Treasury Department

payment systems and potentially sensitive data at U.S. health,

consumer protection and labor agencies.

The Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency has swept

through federal agencies since Republican Donald Trump became

president last month and put the chief executive of carmaker

Tesla in charge of rooting out wasteful spending as

part of Trump's dramatic overhaul of government.

In Manhattan, U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer will consider

a request by Democratic state attorneys general to extend a

temporary block on DOGE that he put in place on Saturday, which

prevented Musk's team from accessing Treasury systems

responsible for trillions of dollars of payments.

The states allege that Musk's team has no legal power to

access the payment systems that contain sensitive personal

information on millions of Americans.

The lawsuit also argued that Musk and his team could disrupt

federal funding for health clinics, preschools, climate

initiatives and other programs, and that Trump could use the

information to further his political agenda.

In Washington, U.S. District Judge John Bates will consider

a request by unions to prevent the DOGE team from accessing

sensitive records at the Department of Health and Human

Services, the Labor Department and the Consumer Financial

Protection Bureau.

Bates denied a similar request last week, delivering a ruling in

the Trump administration's favor. The unions have renewed that

request after they amended their lawsuit.

A similar group of Democratic attorneys general sued Musk, Trump

and DOGE on Thursday, alleging that Musk's appointment was

unconstitutional. The attorneys general asked a federal judge in

Washington to bar him from accessing and using government data,

cancelling contracts or making personnel decisions, among other

things.

Most of Trump's initiatives that have been legally challenged

have been blocked by the courts, which has prompted Musk and

other Trump allies to call for judges to be impeached, although

the president said he would obey court orders.

Despite some initiatives being blocked in court, Trump's

administration has pushed ahead with mass firings of government

workers and has sharply curtailed the United States' foreign aid

program, although the cost-cutting appears to be focused on

programs opposed by political conservatives.