Blanche is set to return to Capitol Hill as Trump reconsiders plans for his $1.8 billion fund
Blanche told lawmakers the Justice Department will not move ahead with the fund after Republican backlash and court rulings stalled the plan.
- On Tuesday, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the Justice Department is "not moving forward" with its $1.8 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund during a House Appropriations Committee hearing.
- President Donald Trump established the fund as part of an Internal Revenue Service settlement to compensate those claiming political targeting, but GOP senators opposed it over fears it could reward January 6, 2021, Capitol rioters.
- A federal judge in Virginia temporarily halted the fund, while Senator Ted Cruz led GOP opposition at a tense May meeting, describing it as "one of the roughest meetings" he'd witnessed in the Senate.
- Congressional leaders had frozen Department of Homeland Security funding until the administration abandoned the program; with it now off the table, lawmakers can resume work on stalled immigration enforcement legislation.
- Senate Majority Leader John Thune called Blanche's testimony "very definitive," signaling a path forward for stalled bills; critics continue challenging the underlying IRS settlement as a "fraud on the Court.
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Trump’s Little MAGA Reparations Fund Is Permanently Canceled
Source: Al Drago / Getty Last week, we reported that a federal judge temporarily put the brakes on President Donald Trump’s $1.766 billion woe-is-MAGA reparations fund — or what the Justice Department called the “anti-weaponization fund” — which happened after 35 retired federal judges asked a district judge to open an investigation into the fund and the IRS immunity Trump and his family were granted along with it. Well, now, according to acting…
Senators lead congressional pushback on DOJ anti-weaponization fund
Senators from both parties are demanding permanent action to kill a $1.8 billion Department of Justice anti-weaponization fund, even as Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told a House panel yesterday the fund is dead.President Donald Trump, in an interview released Wednesday, suggested he has not fully dropped the fund and that people "should be compensated" fueling skepticism on Capitol Hill that Blanche's assurances are enough. He said that …
Blanche says Justice Dept. won’t proceed with Trump’s $1.8 billion fund
WASHINGTON — Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, said Tuesday that he was withdrawing a proposal to create a $1.8 billion fund to compensate people claiming to be victims of unfair prosecution, amid a revolt among Republicans who saw it as an ethical and political disaster. The post Blanche says Justice Dept. won’t proceed with Trump’s $1.8 billion fund appeared first on Hawaii Tribune-Herald.
Trump bows to Senate GOP with abandonment of ‘anti-weaponization’ fund
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Tuesday promised to abandon plans to move forward with an “anti-weaponization” fund criticized as a slush fund for President Trump to dole out money to his allies, potentially saving a $72 billion legislative package in the process. “We are not moving forward with the fund. Period,” Blanche told House…
The U.S. Acting Attorney General announced in Congress that the government will abandon the idea of a $1.8 billion fund for its allies accused of various crimes during the government of Joe BidenTrump, caught in the war that was pushed by Netanyahu The administration of President Donald Trump announced this Tuesday that he will set aside attempts to create a $1.8 billion fund for his allies accused of various crimes during the government of Joe …
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