Treasury terminates Anthropic AI use after Trump's order

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.

Why it matters: The move marks the next step in one of the most aggressive federal actions against a major American AI company.

Driving the news: 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.

What they're saying: "The American people deserve confidence that every tool in government serves the public interest, and under President Trump," Bessent posted.

Context: 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, according to a Treasury spokesperson.

The bottom line: 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.