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President Donald Trump looks on during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on May 27, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Win McNamee\/Getty Images).<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 The Trump administration\u2019s nearly $1.8 billion \u201canti-weaponization\u201d fund has attracted scrutiny for its corruption potential, even splitting congressional Republicans who rarely confront President Donald Trump\u2019s decisions and policies.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Among the top concerns: Could pardoned Jan. 6, 2021, riot defendants who assaulted police officers claim a slice of the pie and essentially be rewarded for committing political violence?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Advocates are also legally challenging the fund\u2019s structure that will conceal details from the public, including claimants\u2019 names and amounts paid out.<\/p>\n

Nikhel Sus, chief counsel for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, otherwise known as CREW, which has filed suit against the fund, told States Newsroom the administration\u2019s order is a \u201cflagrant power grab of congressional authority.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fund, established by the Department of Justice to settle Trump\u2019s multibillion dollar lawsuit against the IRS, has also complicated Senate Republicans\u2019 plans to pass a simple majority immigration enforcement funding package. Some GOP senators are withholding votes unless guardrails for the fund are included in the legislation.<\/p>\n

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche met with Republican senators on Capitol Hill on May 21 to defend the fund, but many GOP lawmakers\u00a0left unconvinced<\/a> and with multiple questions remaining.<\/p>\n

Retiring Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C.,\u00a0told<\/a> reporters the fund is \u201cstupid on stilts\u201d and resembles \u201ctyranny.\u201d<\/p>\n

Others were sweating out questions at town halls during the congressional recess.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI do not think one penny of any fund should ever go to any January 6 insurrectionist that was in the Capitol on January 6, 2021 \u2026 I want to be very clear \u2026 I clearly think Congress needs to have an oversight role in this before I can sign off or support this,\u201d U.S. Rep. Mike Flood, R-Neb., said at a town hall in Norfolk, Nebraska, on May 26.<\/p>\n

What is the \u201canti-weaponization\u201d fund?<\/h4>\n

In exchange for Trump and his family dropping a $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS for the 2019 leak of tax returns, the DOJ ordered the establishment of a\u00a0settlement fund<\/a> in the amount of $1.776 billion \u2014 a nod to the country\u2019s founding.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As part of the arrangement, Trump also agreed to drop an administrative claim for damages related to what Blanche described as an \u201cunlawful\u201d FBI raid of the president\u2019s Mar-a-Lago residence, part of the Biden administration\u2019s case against Trump for allegedly hoarding classified documents after leaving office.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump also agreed to drop a claim for damages related to the DOJ\u2019s 2019\u00a0inquiry<\/a> into Russian meddling in Trump\u2019s 2016 presidential campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Blanche introduced the fund on May 18 as a path to restitution for \u201cvictims of lawfare.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe machinery of government should never be weaponized against any American, and it is this Department\u2019s intention to make right the wrongs that were previously done while ensuring this never happens again,\u201d Blanche said in a press release.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The fund will be led by five commissioners chosen by the attorney general, one of them in consultation with Congress. The president has the power to remove any member, according to the DOJ.<\/p>\n

The department maintains the fund is nonpartisan. In addition to money, the DOJ will also issue formal apologies to eligible claimants, according to officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Who is trying to limit or shut down the fund?<\/h4>\n

House Democrats tried to intervene in the president\u2019s IRS case settlement, but U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams dismissed the case on Trump\u2019s terms. Williams was appointed to the bench in the Southern District of Florida in 2010 by President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

On May 27, nearly three dozen former federal judges urged Williams to reopen the case, arguing the Trump administration \u201cdeceived\u201d the court by not sharing with the judge details of the \u201canti-weaponization\u201d fund.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Further, the judges\u00a0argued<\/a>, the DOJ also claims the settlement forever absolves Trump and his family from tax audits and any other claims by a federal agency.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe parties to this case are using this lawsuit as the legal justification for these actions,\u201d the judges argued.<\/p>\n

Legislative proposals have also popped up in the House and Senate.<\/p>\n

A bipartisan\u00a0bill<\/a> from Reps. Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y., and Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., both up for re-election in swing districts, proposes to ban the use of federal money to pay claims submitted to the \u201canti-weaponization\u201d fund.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Bipartisan Transparency for American Taxpayers Act ensures federal funds cannot be used for this fund without the transparency, oversight, and legal safeguards the American people deserve. Taxpayer dollars will not become a discretionary payout fund. Transparency is not optional. Accountability is not negotiable,\u201d Fitzpatrick said in a press release.<\/p>\n

Suozzi characterized the arrangement as a \u201cslush fund to pay off January 6th criminals and other maladjusted minions!\u201d<\/p>\n

When\u00a0pressed<\/a> during a May 19 Senate hearing on whether Jan. 6 defendants who were convicted of assaulting police officers would be eligible for the fund, Blanche said \u201canybody in this country can apply\u201d and final decisions will be made by the fund\u2019s commissioners.<\/p>\n

Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., announced plans to introduce painful amendments when and if the Senate GOP brings its immigration enforcement funding bill to the floor.<\/p>\n

Van Hollen said he will call for votes on an amendment to block payment to Jan. 6 defendants who have been\u00a0convicted<\/a> of violent crimes and sexual abuse of children.<\/p>\n

The Maryland senator also said he will introduce an amendment that would prohibit members of Congress from receiving payouts.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd as it currently stands, Members of Congress have the chance to benefit from this corrupt scheme. If Republicans won\u2019t put an end to this fund entirely, they should at least join with us to bar Members of Congress from cashing in on it,\u201d Van Hollen said May 21 in a written statement.<\/p>\n

Who is suing?<\/h4>\n

Multiple lawsuits have been filed against the fund.<\/p>\n

U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn and Washington Metropolitan Police Officer Daniel Hodges, who defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021,\u00a0 argued<\/a> in federal court that the pardoned rioters could use payout money to organize.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the most brazen act of presidential corruption this century, President Donald J. Trump has created a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund to finance the insurrectionists and paramilitary groups that commit violence in his name,\u201d they argued in a complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Legal advocacy groups, including CREW, Democracy Forward and Common Cause have also challenged the fund in court.<\/p>\n

Through the order, the administration has granted itself \u201cfinal unreviewable authority to disperse nearly $1.8 billion in money that Congress did not appropriate for that purpose to people that they subjectively determine are victims of so-called lawfare or weaponization,\u201d Sus, of CREW, said in an interview.<\/p>\n

The fund\u2019s structure also flouts transparency laws, Sus said, not least of which includes moving $1.776 billion from the government\u2019s legal judgment fund in a single transaction to a separate, unaccountable pot of money.<\/p>\n

As the law stands now, the Department of Treasury publicly updates a website at least once per month with judgment award amounts paid to claimants by the U.S. government.<\/p>\n

By withdrawing one lump sum, \u201cthey are wholly circumventing disclosure law that Congress passed specifically for that purpose to require disclosure for each settlement,\u201d said Sus, whose organization filed the\u00a0complaint<\/a> in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.<\/p>\n

CREW also argues DOJ\u2019s order is arbitrary and capricious.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think arbitrarily picking 1776 as the number for their (fund) valuation is the definition of an arbitrary precious action \u2014 like they just did it because they thought it was cool,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that\u2019s not how the government\u2019s supposed to operate. They\u2019re supposed to actually consider the facts, they\u2019re supposed to have a reasoned explanation for why they\u2019re doing things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another group of plaintiffs are being represented in Virginia by the legal advocacy groups Democracy Forward and Common Cause.<\/p>\n

Among the plaintiffs are Andrew Floyd, a former federal Jan. 6 case prosecutor who was fired by the DOJ in June 2025, and Joseph Caravello, a California university professor who was charged with felony assault on a federal officer after protesting an immigration raid last summer. A jury\u00a0acquitted<\/a> Caravello in April.<\/p>\n

The nine-count lawsuit alleges in part the fund violates the plaintiffs\u2019 First and Fifth Amendment rights, and violates the authority of Congress.<\/p>\n

The fund \u201cdoes not offer benefits to victims of ideological targeting by Democrats and Republicans alike; instead, it offers benefits to those who have espoused views that were, or were perceived to be, oppositional to Democratic administrations, but not to those who have espoused views that were, or were perceived to be, oppositional to Republican administrations,\u201d according to the\u00a0complaint<\/a> filed in the Eastern District of Virginia.<\/p>\n

Juan Salinas II of the Nebraska Examiner contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n

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