Antifa cells in America actively receive funding from an international antifascist network working to establish chapters around the world, though their financial ties might soon be severed, as U.S. national security officials are reportedly moving toward a foreign terrorism classification for antifa abroad.

U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that declares the anti-fascist antifa movement a domestic “terrorist organization” as part of a crackdown on what he claims is left-wing sponsored political violence.

A top Cato scholar said President Donald Trump's move to designate Antifa a domestic terror organization was "idiotic. " Patrick Eddington, a senior fellow in homeland security and civil liberties at the Cato Institute,

President Trump has signed an executive order designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, initiating investigations into groups that fund it.