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billion in assets on deposit at the federal reserve bank in new york. those funds have been frozen essentially since then. and in september, a group of 9/11 victims' families sued to try and get some of that money awarded to them as part of a default judgment that had been entered years before. now the biden administration is expected -- through the president signing himself an executive order that would clear the way for half of those funds to be used for humanitarian relief and the other half of those funds to be awarded to those victims. now, those victims in order to be able to actually get those part of those $3.5 billion in funds, that would still need to be litigated in courts and the courts would need to decide that those funds could indeed be awarded as part of this judgment for these families against the taliban. now, the other $3.5 billion, that's used on humanitarian assistance, including for food in a country in which millions of people are now food insecure after hundreds of thousands of

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