{"id":74190,"date":"2026-05-29T20:56:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T01:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/trump-news-at-a-glance-federal-judge-pumps-the-brakes-on-trumps-1-8bn-anti-weaponization-fund\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T20:56:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T01:56:05","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-federal-judge-pumps-the-brakes-on-trumps-1-8bn-anti-weaponization-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/trump-news-at-a-glance-federal-judge-pumps-the-brakes-on-trumps-1-8bn-anti-weaponization-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: federal judge pumps the brakes on Trump\u2019s $1.8bn \u2018anti-weaponization\u2019 fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Order bars government from \u2018taking other further action\u2019 in the creation or operation of the fund so a case challenging it can continue \u2013 key US politics stories from Friday, 29 May at a glance<\/p>\n<p>A federal judge in Virginia <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.vaed.596617\/gov.uscourts.vaed.596617.31.0_1.pdf\">temporarily blocked<\/a> the Trump administration from transferring any money into a secretive and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/18\/trump-dismiss-10-billion-dollar-irs-lawsuit\">loosely controlled $1.8bn<\/a> fund while a legal challenge proceeds.<\/p>\n<p>The order from US district judge Leonie Brinkema on Friday bars the government from \u201ctaking other further action\u201d in the creation or operation of the fund while legal arguments in a case challenging the fund continue. The order is intended \u201cto ensure no funds are irreversibly disbursed from the Anti-Weaponization Fund\u201d, Brinkema wrote.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/29\/trump-news-at-a-glance-latest-updates-today\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Order bars government from \u2018taking other further action\u2019 in the creation or operation of the fund so a case challenging it can continue \u2013 key US politics stories from Friday, 29 May at a glance A federal judge in Virginia temporarily blocked the Trump administration from transferring any money into a secretive and loosely controlled &#8230; <a title=\"Trump news at a glance: federal judge pumps the brakes on Trump\u2019s $1.8bn \u2018anti-weaponization\u2019 fund\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/trump-news-at-a-glance-federal-judge-pumps-the-brakes-on-trumps-1-8bn-anti-weaponization-fund\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump news at a glance: federal judge pumps the brakes on Trump\u2019s $1.8bn \u2018anti-weaponization\u2019 fund\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}