The White House is preparing an executive order to remove Anthropic's artificial intelligence, Claude, from federal government operations, according to a report.

The executive order would also formalize a push to remove Claude across federal agencies after President Trump said his administration would not use "woke" AI, unnamed sources told Axios. The order could be issued as soon as this week, according to an anonymous source.

The Treasury Department has already begun offboarding Anthropic.

In its lawsuit filed on Monday against the Defense Department, Anthropic said that Congress's procurement laws did not give the administration authority to blacklist a U.S. company over protected speech.

The Trump administration has argued that Anthropic's "safeguards" pose a national security threat through industry intervening during military operations.

A White House official told Axios that "any policy announcement will come directly from" the president, and "discussion about potential executive orders is speculation."