DOJ refuses to issue signed declaration verifying ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’ is dead
The Justice Department announced Friday that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche now says President Donald Trump “Anti-Armament Fund“
The Justice Department’s denial comes after a federal judge last week gave the administration seven days to confirm that it would not create the controversial fund.
“Such statements are unnecessary, and forced statements from senior officials in the Executive Branch imply serious separation of powers concerns,” the Justice Department said in a lawsuit filed Friday with U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema last week. he said. issued an injunction Preventing the administration from creating funds indefinitely.
The judge issued an interim injunction to block the administration’s ‘Arms Fight Fund’
Brinkema had given the Trump administration seven days for Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to declare that they would not create the fund, which he said would likely lead to the dismissal of his lawsuit against the fund.
But in their filing Friday, the department argued that Brinkema’s proposal was a potentially unconstitutional overreach of the executive branch by effectively seeking “testimony” from top officials on an issue the administration has repeatedly said it would not move forward with.
Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters – PHOTO: President Donald Trump speaks to the media upon arrival at Paris Orly airport following the G7 Summit in Orly, France, on June 17, 2026.
The fund, announced last month by the Department of Justice to compensate those who claimed they were wrongly targeted during the Biden administration, was offered in exchange for Trump agreeing to withdraw his offer. 10 billion dollar lawsuit Also against the IRS Two $230 million civil lawsuits The Russia collusion investigation he faces during his first term in office and the 2022 search of his Mar-a-Lago mansion have led to accusations of self-serving and bipartisan turmoil On the possible use of taxpayer money to pay rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
In her ruling last week, Judge Brinkema repeatedly pointed to President Trump’s changing statements about the fund in recent weeks; These statements included calling himself a “radical left judge” after Brinkema temporarily paused the funding earlier this month.
“When the President of the United States says he’s disappointed that things aren’t moving forward,” Brinkema said, that will add to the evidence that the fund “can hold its own” in the future.
