Trump’s Short-Lived Anti-Weaponization Fund |
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With Congress staring down yet another funding stalemate, Republicans urged President Trump on Monday to drop the Justice Department’s fund to pay victims of government weaponization. By mid-afternoon, it appeared they had been successful.
“This Fund was open to anybody who was so weaponized, targeted, or persecuted, whether they were Democrat, Republican, Conservative, Independent, or otherwise,” a Justice Department statement read. Last week, a federal judge halted any payments for two weeks while a legal challenge plays out. Instead of appealing, the DOJ announced that it would abide by the district court ruling.
The statement only pertains to the two-week pause, but official Washington is treating it as the wind-down to a controversial program that never fully got off the ground. The Justice Department did not respond to RealClearPolitics’ request for comment.
Mike Howell, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project, publicly presented his application last month to join the five-member board overseeing complainant requests. Howell laid out a 10-step plan to process and adjudicate claims. He also suggested holding an event on the National Mall for January 6 defendants to share their stories. All plans are now apparently on hold. “The victims get victimized, once again,” he told RCP.
“They’ve got to fight this in court,” Howell added, arguing the White House should not let the fund lapse before it even starts. “Senate Republicans acted like Senate Democrats and held ICE and CBP hostage in exchange for killing this fund.”
The so-called “anti-weaponization fund” was expected to drop $1.776 billion into a longstanding, permanent account that the DOJ already uses to pay judgments and legal settlements. But this additional money was part of a deal Trump made with the Internal Revenue Service, in exchange for dropping his $10 billion lawsuit against them for a former contractor leaking his 2019 and 2020 tax returns. Trump said that neither he nor his family would receive any money from the fund, but the unprecedented agreement also included a promise to never again audit any........