A federal judge has blocked the DoJ’s anti-weaponization fund indefinitely and ordered officials to assert in writing that it won’t go forward.
Trump's $1.8B "anti-weaponization" fund was blocked by federal court; Trump publicly backed funding January 6 rioters anyway, signaling likely judicial defiance. US institutional conflict raises governance risk and legal unpredictability for tech companies under federal jurisdiction.
By
Nia Prater,
Intelligencer staff writer, who covers New York politics
President Trump in the Oval Office on Thursday.
Early this month, then–Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche insisted in testimony before a House subcommittee that the Trump administration was stepping back from its nearly $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund amid mounting criticism and legal challenges, which alleged that the pot of taxpayer dollars amounted to no more than a slush fund for allies to the president.
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The Justice Department failed to explain why it simply couldn’t put in writing that the slush fund is dead.
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A court has temporarily suspended work on Trump’s $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund.”
Jan. 6 defendants were already seeking payments before the fund was created.
