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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? And will the fund no longer exist? They have not responded to that.

And as we sit here and speak, the Associated Press citing a single source familiar with President Trump's thinking, says that he is now reconsidering this pause, so certainly more to come.

But the other dimension here, as we mentioned, the Republicans on Capitol Hill who were uneasy about this because they were set to take a vote on this fund.

Republicans have apparently been outraged about this sort of behind closed doors.

There has been a funding process that they have been hammering out on the Hill to fund ICE and other agencies.

And this was becoming a snag in those negotiations. Our congressional

colleague, Lisa Desjardin, had spoken with one Republican senator who told her that there were only

one or two of their Republican colleagues in the Senate that were happy or were comfortable

with this fund. Today the president met with Speaker Johnson at the White House. We believe that

this came up in conversation.

And then the majority leader, Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters today that he wanted this weaponization fund dropped from that immigration bill.

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