Judge Blocks Trump's $1.776 Billion Anti-Weaponization Fund

A federal judge on Friday extended a block on the Trump administration's $1.776 billion AntiWeaponization Fund, even after Justice Department leaders said the program would not move forward. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema said the government's public statements were not enough to rule out the possibility that the fund could be revived later. She gave the Justice Department a week to put its termination in writing and said the court would keep reviewing the issue. The dispute follows separate court action earlier in the week, when another judge declined to intervene after hearing that the fund had effectively been abandoned. The fund, created after a Trump settlement with the IRS, was meant to compensate people who said they were harmed by government overreach, but Democrats criticized it as a potential slush fund.