In today’s newsletter: What an unprecedented scheme reveals about an increasingly uninhibited leadership – and what it might mean for American democracyGood morning. It has been two weeks since details of a settlement in the case of Trump v the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) first emerged. An out-of-court agreement with the US president created a $1.8bn…
President Donald Trump's administration is planning to pull the plug on his $1.776 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund" to pay out people supposedly victimized by "lawfare" — a controversial plan that critics claimed was a slush fund to pay out money to Jan. 6 rioters and other allies of the president convicted of crimes.According to Axios, White House…
The Trump administration signaled it is backing off on the creation of a $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund announced by the Justice Department that could send money to allies of President Donald Trump.
The Trump administration is appearing to back off plans for its $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization" fund after a judge’s order put it on hold. Democrats called it a “slush fund” for Trump allies but there was also unusually fierce opposition from Republicans with some even threatening to team up with Democrats to block it. NBC’s Gabe Gutierrez reports for…
The Trump administration intends to scrap a controversial $1.8 billion legal fund for victims of alleged government “weaponization,” according to a person familiar with the matter.
President Trump met with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) at the White House on Monday to discuss the Justice Department’s controversial $1.776 billion antiweaponization fund, sources in the Speaker’s office confirmed to The Hill and to NewsNation’s Joe Khalil. The meeting comes as Republican lawmakers in the House and Senate have voiced frustration over the…
The Justice Department said it will stop work on the $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund following a district judge's decision temporarily blocking the program.
The Justice Department’s agreement to temporarily pause its anti-weaponization fund marks a rare retreat from President Donald Trump’s White House as a legal challenge unfolds and opposition from congressional Republicans threatens to blow up a party-line budget bill. The department’s Monday announcement that it would “abide by” a court order pausing the…
The rollout of the DOJ's "Anti-Weaponization Fund" may have been botched, but the fund remains a good idea, and the hysteria from Democrats like the hypocritical Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden and allied media is absurd.
President Trump is dropping his $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, the Justice Department announced on Monday.
