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 Judge blocks Trump's $1.8B program that critics call a 'slush fund'
05/29/26 07:56 AM
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Judge blocks Trump's $1.8B program that critics call a 'slush fund'
The order temporarily halts funding or organizing the fund while a judge considers arguments against the program that critics called a slush fund to reward the president's supporters.
Portrait of Bart Jansen Bart Jansen
USA TODAY
Updated May 29, 2026, 10:51 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON – A federal judge temporarily blocked President Donald Trump from setting up a $1.8 billion fund to compensate people the Justice Department deems were investigated improperly.
U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema in Virginia ordered the Trump administration not to take further action creating or operating “the Anti-Weaponization Fund, which includes the transferring of money to the Fund,” the consideration of any claims or the disbursing of funds while the case is litigated. She set a hearing June 12.
The Justice Department created the fund as part of the settlement of a lawsuit Trump and his family filed against the Internal Revenue Service after their tax returns were leaked. Democrats and some public-interest groups have blasted the proposed program as a slush fund to reward the president's political supporters.
The White House and Justice Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment….
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/05/29/trump-anti-weaponization-fund-blocked-by-judge/90311805007/
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