Trump Administration Signals Dropping $1.8 Billion Fund as Court Pause and GOP Revolt Intensify
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Updated · CNN · Jun 1
Trump Administration Signals Dropping $1.8 Billion Fund as Court Pause and GOP Revolt Intensify
16 articles · Updated · CNN · Jun 1
$1.8 billion in planned “anti-weaponization” money is being described by White House contacts to Republicans as dropped, though officials have not clarified whether the retreat is permanent.
A federal judge has already frozen the fund until at least a June 12 hearing, and the Justice Department said only that it would comply with that order rather than definitively kill the program.
Mike Johnson discussed the fund with Trump as Republican anger over the proposal clogged the party’s wider agenda, including efforts to pass more immigration-enforcement funding.
John Thune urged the administration to “shut it down themselves,” while senators including John Kennedy said court compliance alone does not prove the fund is gone for good.
The fund grew out of Trump’s IRS tax-returns lawsuit but drew weeks of criticism from his own party as a potential slush fund, alongside a separate Florida court challenge over the settlement.
How will this failed fund impact future executive settlements and the use of the federal Judgment Fund?