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- The Justice Department’s failure to file the sworn declaration keeps Judge Leonie Brinkema’s injunction blocking the $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund.
- The department called the judge’s request unnecessary and a separation-of-powers issue.
- Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Congress the fund is not proceeding.
- Judge Brinkema warned that the plaintiffs’ lawsuit will proceed if the declaration remains unfiled.
