A federal judge has temporarily blocked Donald Trump’s administration from funding or making any payments from a nearly $1.8 billion compensation fund for his allies.Friday’s order from Judge Leonie M. Brinkema blocks the administration from “taking any further action pursuant to the creation or operation of the Anti-Weaponization Fund” — including transferring money to it, considering any claims, and mailing any checks while a legal challenge plays out.The order follows a lawsuit filed by former federal prosecutor Andrew Floyd, among others, who accused the administration of launching an illegal scheme to reward Trump’s political allies while excluding others harmed by government abuse, including his perceived enemies and critics targeted in his own political retribution campaign.Following an agreement between the president and the IRS after he sued his own administration for $10 billion, alleged “victims” of government “weaponization” can file for a piece of a $1.776 billion compensation fund, while the president, his family and their businesses escape government scrutiny for tax debts over which they have been under investigation for more than a decade.Several lawsuits were filed to block the transfer of millions of taxpayer dollars into the fund.(Getty)Floyd’s lawsuit argues that the fund was created under a “collusive agreement between the president and his own administration” and “has no congressional authorization, no basis in law, and no accountability.”The career prosecutor alleges he was fired in June 2025 in retaliation for supervising the prosecution of members of the mob that broke into the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 — a history that the Trump administration has sought to rewrite with the erasure of hundreds of convictions.Those former defendants are now lining up for potentially millions of dollars in taxpayer dollars from the fund.Other plaintiffs joining Floyd in his lawsuit include Cal State University Channel Islands professor John Caravello, who was arrested during protest against Trump’s mass deportation arrests, and the entire city of New Haven, Connecticut, which “has been targeted by the administration through retaliatory civil litigation and threatened funding terminations,” according to the lawsuit.“None of these individuals or entities can make a claim for monetary payment, or even for an apology, from the Anti-Weaponization Fund,” lawyers wrote.A five-member board made up of Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s appointees will arrange payments from the fund to recipients whose identities will remain secret. Blanche has publicly stated that Trump and his family are not eligible, but Blanche has not ruled out payments to the president’s donors and allies, raising questions about the process and who stands to benefit.The Department of Justice is tapping into the long-standing Judgment Fund to settle claims brought by Trump’s allies, an arrangement that critics have called a “slush fund” for his supporters.This is a developing story