According to CoinMeta, on the day Anthropic submitted IPO, it faced an appeal from the U.S. Department of Justice, attempting to overturn a ruling by a California court and reinstate the ban across all federal agencies. This ban affected its business clients, leading some government contractors to terminate their contracts, and transactions worth over $180 million were aborted. Anthropic estimates that if the ban were fully implemented, revenue in 2026 could be reduced by several billion dollars.