{"id":74776,"date":"2026-06-12T10:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/judge-extends-block-on-trumps-1-8bn-anti-weaponization-fund\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T10:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:58:12","slug":"judge-extends-block-on-trumps-1-8bn-anti-weaponization-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/judge-extends-block-on-trumps-1-8bn-anti-weaponization-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge extends block on Trump\u2019s $1.8bn \u2018anti-weaponization\u2019 fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump administration created fund to resolve his lawsuit against the IRS over the leak of his tax returns<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A US federal judge agreed on Friday to extend a court-ordered block on the Trump administration\u2019s creation and operation of a $1.8bn settlement fund for compensating people who claim to be victims of a weaponized government.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Todd Blanche, the acting US attorney general, told Congress that the government is scrapping its plans for the fund in the face of a fierce bipartisan backlash. Government attorneys have argued that lawsuits challenging the fund are now moot, but plaintiffs\u2019 attorneys aren\u2019t satisfied by Blanche\u2019s assurances that the fund won\u2019t move forward.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/12\/judge-extends-block-trump-anti-weaponization-fund\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump administration created fund to resolve his lawsuit against the IRS over the leak of his tax returns Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email A US federal judge agreed on Friday to extend a court-ordered block on the Trump administration\u2019s creation and operation of a $1.8bn settlement fund for compensating people who &#8230; <a title=\"Judge extends block on Trump\u2019s $1.8bn \u2018anti-weaponization\u2019 fund\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/judge-extends-block-on-trumps-1-8bn-anti-weaponization-fund\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Judge extends block 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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74776","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\/74776","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=74776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}