President Donald Trump is pausing plans for the Justice Department’s $1.776 billion “weaponization” fund amid opposition from Republicans in Congress, at least for two weeks. The Justice Department announced the move Monday after Trump met with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA). “The Department of Justice disagrees strongly with the decision on the…
President Trump is expected to drop his $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund after bipartisan backlash. It comes as Iran says it is suspending peace talks after Israel expanded its military operations in Lebanon. NBC News correspondents Mel Zanona, Garrett Haake, Richard Engel, Courtney Kube and Allie Canal report on the latest developments.
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…
President Trump, in a rare retreat, is putting his controversial $1.7+ billion "anti-weaponization" fund on ice. Ed O'Keefe reports.
Republican Senators were not satisfied with the Justice Department's statement on the $1.77 billion weaponization fund and demanded a clear statement from Trump. The post SHOWDOWN: GOP Senators Make More Demands as DOJ Signals Trump Administration is Dropping Weaponization Fund appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
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…
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer laid out a plan to fight the controversial $1.8 billion fund.
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.
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.
After district court judge struck down plan that was part of IRS lawsuit settlement
