Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters at the Capitol on Monday that his preference would be that the White House shut down the proposed $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund if Congress is to pass a budget reconciliation package anytime soon. “I made my views very clear on the issue,” Thune said. Asked if he…
The DOJ paused the Trump administration's proposed anti-weaponization fund Monday, giving Senate Republicans space to push immigration enforcement funding.
Trump's $1.8 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund" that would have benefited political allies is being scrapped, according to the Department of Justice.
President Trump is dropping his $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, the Justice Department announced on Monday.
BREAKING UPDATE: The Justice Department released a statement on Monday afternoon on a district court judge's ruling on the weaponization fund. The post BREAKING UPDATE: Trump DOJ Drops $1.77 Billion Weaponization Fund appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
President Donald Trump's administration pulled the plug on his $1.776 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund" after a federal judge temporarily blocked it over the weekend — but that doesn't mean the rising confrontation it's caused between the White House and Republicans on Capitol Hill is over, Punchbowl News' Jake Sherman told MS NOW's Katy Tur on Monday."Maybe you have some information about what Speaker Mike Johnson might have said to the president when he was at the White House a little bit earlier today," Tur asked Sherman, referring to the recent meeting on the status of the reconciliation bill, which Republicans have debated updating with language limiting the fund.Sherman acknowledged he didn't know exactly what was discussed there about the fund, but that his sources tell him "the administration is going to announce through DOJ that they are going to comply with the court order ... but the administration plans to say they plan to take no further action."Despite that, he argued, this "is not going to be an immediate salve for Capitol Hill" because Trump could simply decide at a later date to restart it up again when the court order expires. "They're going to want to put language in ... the reconciliation legislation, which funds ICE and CBP, to make sure that the administration can't, at some point, return and do this again."In other words, he said, Republicans will take a "trust, but verify" attitude and "put teeth into legislation to make sure that the administration doesn't, in a couple of months, say, actually, we've changed our minds. We're going to go back and set up this $1.8 billion fund."Ultimately, though, he said, this is probably good news for Republicans because the administration's surrender means they can move forward with the broader reconciliation bill."This was the only path, Katy, to get this done," he said. "The administration would have been frozen up here for weeks, if not months ... if this weaponization fund was put in place, they would have had to deal with this on every single bill that the House and Senate were looking to pass." As a result, Trump had "no other option" but to throw in the towel on the slush fund. - YouTube youtu.be
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 anti-ICE protester who threatened to kill an agent and his family during a heated clash outside Newark’s Delaney Hall has been arrested and charged, officials said Monday. Nicholas Matthew Scelfo, 27, of Brooklyn, was taken into custody after allegedly hurling threats against an ICE officer, his wife and his children during a protest at...
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 officials are set to comply with a court order putting the fund on pause and don't have plans at this time to contest the court's action or try to resume it later."It's dead for now," one official told Axios.The fund was created as a supposed "settlement" of Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against his own IRS for failing to safeguard his tax information from a whistleblower who illegally leaked it.However, the optics of the fund led even a number of Republicans to speak out in criticism, and GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill are debating a provision in the Homeland Security reconciliation bill that would put sharp restrictions on how any payouts from the fund could potentially be spent.This also comes as a separate court is reopening the IRS lawsuit at the behest of dozens of retired judges, so as to review whether the settlement in question was appropriate.