2026-06-19T19:57:21.231Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：蒂尔尼·斯尼德
发布时间：2026年6月19日，美国东部时间下午3:57
埃文·武奇/路透社
内容摘要
- 美国司法部拒绝提供高级官员的法庭声明，以证实这项备受争议的18亿美元基金已失效。
- 该基金本应向声称在往届政府任期内遭受政府武器化对待的受害者提供赔偿。
- 官方辩称，此前的国会证词和法庭文件已经足以证明该基金不会推进。
本文由AI生成的摘要经CNN编辑审核。
美国司法部拒绝了法官的一项要求，即该部门需提供高级政府官员的法庭声明，以证实所谓的反武器化基金不会继续推进。
司法部在周五提交的新法庭文件中表示，此类声明“毫无必要”，且法官要求政府提交声明的命令引发了“严重的三权分立担忧”。
这起正在弗吉尼亚州亚历山大市审理的案件，是针对这项备受争议的18亿美元基金的多起法律挑战之一。该基金源自唐纳德·特朗普总统针对美国国税局的一起存疑法律诉讼的和解方案，本应向声称在往届政府任期内遭受政府“武器化”对待的人提供赔偿，外界随即指责该基金将成为特朗普盟友的“政治分肥基金”。
随着政治反对声和法律障碍不断增加，政府放弃了该基金的设立计划。弗吉尼亚州此案的法官利奥妮·M·布林克马曾暗示，她倾向于裁定法庭内的法律纠纷已无实际意义。但上周，她要求代理司法部长托德·布兰科、其副手副司法部长斯坦·伍德沃德以及财政部长斯科特·贝森特提交声明，证实“他们不会采取任何行动设立或运营反武器化基金，且该基金不会以任何形式、任何名称推进”。
她在6月12日的命令中表示，若未提交此类文件，案件将进入下一程序。
在新提交的文件中，司法部指出布兰科曾在国会作证时称该基金“不会推进，仅此而已”，同时伍德沃德也在相关法庭文件中签署了相同表述。
司法部还辩称，法院“没有依据强迫副司法部长和两名内阁成员作证”。
DOJ rebuffs judge’s request for Blanche to declare in court that anti-weaponization fund is dead
2026-06-19T19:57:21.231Z / CNN
By Tierney Sneed
PUBLISHED Jun 19, 2026, 3:57 PM ET
Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche, in the Oval Office of the White House on June 10.
Evan Vucci/Reuters
Summary
- The Justice Department is refusing to provide court declarations from senior officials confirming that a controversial $1.8 billion fund is defunct.
- The fund would have compensated people claiming to be victims of government weaponization under prior administrations.
- Officials argue that previous congressional testimony and court filings already confirm the fund will not move forward.
AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.
The Justice Department is rebuffing a judge’s request that it supply a court declaration from senior administration officials that would confirm that the so-called anti-weaponization fund is not moving forward.
In a new court filing Friday, the Justice Department said that the declarations were “unnecessary” and that the judge’s order that the administration file them raises “serious separation of powers concerns.”
The case — playing out on Alexandria, Virginia — is one of several legal challenges to the controversial $1.8 billion fund, which arose out of a settlement of a legally dubious lawsuit President Donald Trump filed against the IRS. It would have compensated people who claimed to have been victims of government “weaponization” under prior administrations, prompting allegations that it would operate as a slush fund for Trump’s allies.
As political opposition and legal hurdles mounted, the administration dropped its plans for the fund, and Judge Leonie M. Brinkema, the judge in the Virginia case, indicated she was inclined to rule the legal dispute in her courtroom as moot. But last week, she requested declarations from acting Attorney General Todd Balance, a top deputy of his, Associate Attorney General Stan Woodward, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirming that “they will not take any action to create or operate the Anti-Weaponization Fund, and that the Anti-Weaponization Fund will not proceed in any manner, or under any name.”
Absent such a submission, the case would move forward to the next steps, she said in the June 12 order.
In the new filing, the Justice Department pointed to Blanche’s testimony to Congress in which he said the fund was “not going forward, period,” as well as Woodward’s signatory on court filings saying the same.
The Department also argued that there was no “basis for the court to compel testimony from the Associate Attorney General and two Cabinet members.”
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