The White House is hitting back at a federal judge who issued an order blocking access to the Treasury Department’s payment systems to anyone “other than civil servants with a need for access to perform their job duties.

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Elon Musk believes some $1 billion is being spent on fraudulent Treasury payments, prompting President Trump to ask if this could help Uncle Sam's national debt issue.