Judge indefinitely blocks Trump $1.8B 'slush fund' that administration claimed was dead [View all]
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Source: The Independent
Friday 12 June 2026 11:14 EDT
A federal judge has indefinitely blocked Donald Trump’s administration from implementing a nearly $1.8 billion compensation fund for his political allies after officials claimed they were “not moving forward” with the plans. Friday’s injunction from District Judge Leonie Brinkema extends a previous order that prevented the government 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.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and the Department of Justice insisted the administration would follow the court’s order and abandon plans for the fund, but officials have also suggested that they are still looking for pathways to issue massive taxpayer-funded payouts to alleged “victims” of government “weaponization,” including January 6 rioters and close allies of the president.
The now-blocked $1.1776 billion fund – announced as part an agreement between the president and the IRS after he sued his own administration for $10 billion — would be used to settle claims from those alleged “victims.”. Several lawsuits were filed in response, including a case brought by a career federal prosecutor who says he was fired in retaliation for working on cases against members of the mob that broke into the 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 quickly lined up to file multi-million dollar claims with the now-defunct fund. Brinkema, who is overseeing the case from former prosecutor Andrew Floyd, issued her initial injunction late last month. That injunction was set to expire Friday. The Justice Department now has a week to provide her with evidence that the fund has been permanently abandoned.
Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-slush-fund-weaponization-blocked-b2994800.html
Link to. ORDER (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.596617/gov.uscourts.vaed.596617.85.0_1.pdf
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