Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. I'm the Navaz is away. On the news hour tonight,

the Justice Department hits pause on a so-called anti-weaponization fund for people who claimed

they were unfairly targeted by past administrations. Israeli forces launched their deepest

incursion into Lebanon in decades,

complicating already fragile negotiations aimed at ending the U.S.-Iran war.

And a new report examines just how secure the voting process is for this year's hotly contested midterm elections.

The real risks that we're facing is misinformation and confusion, which

ultimately erode the trust of the American people.

Welcome to the news hour. President Trump's nearly $1.8 billion so-called anti-weaponization fund just hit a setback today.

The Justice Department says it will comply with a court order temporarily blocking payments from the program, money that could have gone to January 6th defendants and other Trump supporters.

Beyond that, some Republicans on Capitol Hill expressed concerns about the fund and how the money

would be handed out.

Our White House correspondent Liz Landers is here to explain what we know.

So Liz, what exactly has the Trump administration decided to do?

What does this pause effectively mean?

So there's a lot here that we still don't

know, I will add that. But last week, a judge here in Virginia said that there needed to be a pause

for about two weeks until June 12th before they could disperse any money from that fund. In addition to

that, another judge in Miami said that they wanted to re-look and re-examine the IRS settlement, which was what precipitated all this when the president settled with the IRS.

The Department of Justice says today that they strongly disagree with that ruling from the judge in Virginia, but they will abide by it.

But that's only for two weeks.

So I asked the White House, is this temporarily paused or is this final?

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