A federal judge in Virginia has briefly blocked the Trump administration from transferring forward with plans to create a virtually $1.8 billion fund to compensate individuals who it says had been wrongly focused by the federal government prior to now.
The brief order from US District Judge Leonie Brinkema says the administration can not take any motion “pursuant to the creation or operation of the Anti-Weaponization Fund, which includes the transferring of money to the Fund; the consideration of any claims submitted to the Fund; and the disbursing of any funds from the Fund.”
She set a listening to for June 12 to listen to arguments over whether or not she ought to problem a extra lasting pause on the federal government’s efforts to arrange the fund, which is being challenged by a diverse coalition of people and entities who say they might be ineligible to obtain cash from it.
NCS has reached out to the White House for remark.
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