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Trump’s 'Anti-Weaponization Fund' scrapped, Justice Department says

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Trump's $1.8 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund" that would have benefited political allies is being scrapped, according to the Department of Justice.

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Head of GOP women’s caucus: ‘Billion-dollar-plus slush fund’ not answer to weaponization

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Head of GOP women’s caucus: ‘Billion-dollar-plus slush fund’ not answer to weaponization

GOP Rep. Kat Cammack (Fla.) on Monday morning criticized the Trump administration’s $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, which the administration scrapped later in the day after intense backlash from congressional Republicans. Cammack, the chair of the Republican Women’s Caucus, said on Fox News’s “Mornings with Maria” that government weaponization is a “very real” and “rampant” problem.…

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Trump Taps Former Private Prison Executive as Interim ICE Director

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Trump Taps Former Private Prison Executive as Interim ICE Director

David Venturella is former VP of GEO Group, whose profits soared from $32M to $254M in 2025 as ICE detention expanded.

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Trump says talks between the U.S. and Iran continue 'at a rapid pace'

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Trump says talks between the U.S. and Iran continue 'at a rapid pace'

In a post on social media, President Trump said that talks between the United States and Iran have been continuing "at a rapid pace," not long after Iranian state media had said the high-stakes negotiations had been suspended. NBC News' Monica Alba and Richard Engel have details on the evolving situation.

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Justice Department says it will abide by court order pausing its 'anti-weaponization' fund

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Justice Department says it will abide by court order pausing its 'anti-weaponization' fund

The Justice Department said it 'strongly disagrees' with the court's ruling that paused a $1.776 fund for victims of government "weaponization," but would still abide by it.

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Trump admin backs off controversial $2B fund, clearing path for stalled GOP immigration bill

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Trump admin backs off controversial $2B fund, clearing path for stalled GOP immigration bill

The DOJ paused the Trump administration's proposed anti-weaponization fund Monday, giving Senate Republicans space to push immigration enforcement funding.

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Trump Plans to Drop $1.8 Billion Slush Fund After Major Court Loss

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Trump Plans to Drop $1.8 Billion Slush Fund After Major Court Loss

The Trump administration is suspending its $1.776 billion slush fund for alleged MAGA victims of political targeting after internal disagreement. “The Department of Justice disagrees strongly with the decision on the Anti-Weaponization Fund put forth by the United States District Court Judge in the Eastern District of Virginia, wherein the Court stated that, under no circumstances, may the Department of Justice proceed with the Anti-Weaponization Fund recently established in order to make up for the tremendous abuse, harm, and hate unfairly shown to so many people,” the Justice Department wrote on X Monday afternoon, referring to the fund’s temporary ban last Friday. “This Fund was open to anybody who was so weaponized, targeted, or persecuted, whether they were Democrat, Republican, Conservative, Independent, or otherwise. The Department will abide by the Court’s ruling.”Last week, a federal judge suspended the administration from proceeding with its slush fund for at least two weeks, scheduling a June 12 hearing to hear arguments. If Trump has truly given up on his plans, this would be a quick life and death for an enrichment fund that drew criticism from both Democrats and even some Republicans, as both sides decried it as a problematic conflict of interests at best and blatant taxpayer theft at worst. Outrage grew as the administration refused to exclude January 6 rioters convicted of assaulting police officers from getting a payout.“This has become a distraction,” an administration source told Axios. “The president believes government was weaponized against people—it wasn’t just him. But this isn’t the time and vehicle for it.”

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