The Treasury Department is officially pulling the plug on Anthropic's AI tools at the direction of President Trump, Secretary Scott Bessent announced on Monday.
The move marks the next step in one of the most aggressive federal actions against a major American AI company.
Trump on Friday directed the federal government to blacklist Anthropic from all government work amid a dispute over how the Pentagon can deploy its AI.
"The American people deserve confidence that every tool in government serves the public interest, and under President Trump," Bessent posted.
The Treasury Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment on what Claude was being used for.
Last year, Claude was made broadly available across all three branches of the federal government under a General Services Administration OneGov agreement.
While Treasury did not specifically list Claude as one of the tools it used last year in the department's publicly available use case inventory, employees have used Anthropic's Claude Code and other products.
The decision will force employees to rework projects that rely on Anthropic's models, and raises fresh questions about whether other AI vendors will face similar scrutiny.
Posted by John3262005
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Why utilize the benefits of America’s capitalistic nature by competing different companies against each other so the best possible product gets developed, when instead they can embrace the worst parts of state run capitalism by choosing the tech company that is a yes man and choosing it even if it’s inferior?
Given that the Pentagon gave itself 6 months to weed off the use of Anthropic AI use,
I am guessing that the Defense Department will probably be the last to do it, especially since they used the AI in the Iran strikes