We KNEW THIS was coming, eh?
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A federal judge barred the government on Friday from taking steps to launch President Trump’s $1.8 billion fund, for now prohibiting the establishment of the fund, which is intended to pay people the administration finds were harmed by the federal government.
The brief order by Judge Leonie M. Brinkema of the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia prohibits the government from establishing the fund or processing disbursements at least until a hearing is held in June in a pending lawsuit challenging its legality.
The order came in a case brought by a group of individuals and entities who say they have faced partisan attacks by the Trump administration but who say they expect to be excluded from accessing the fund.
The halt provided the first meaningful, if potentially temporary, roadblock to efforts to compensate the president’s political allies since plans for the fund were formalized this month. At least two other lawsuits challenging the fund have also been filed in the District of Columbia and in California, and a number of lawmakers, including prominent Republicans, have publicly objected to its aims.
Mr. Trump has celebrated the fund as a source of relief for victims of “weaponization and lawfare” under Democratic administrations, and a number of Mr. Trump’s allies, including rioters convicted of crimes during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, have announced plans to apply…..
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The administration’s $1.8 billion fund could face separate scrutiny. On Wednesday, 35 former federal judges urged the judge who closed President Trump’s case with the I.R.S., the origin of the fund, to take another look at the terms of the deal….
White House Not Budging on ‘Anti-Weaponization’ Fund
CNN: “Many Senate Republican remain furious at the Trump administration’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund and are refusing to advance a separate bill to fund immigration enforcement until they are satisfied that payouts won’t go to people who assaulted police during the January attack on the US Capitol and other guardrails are put in place.”
“Yet despite vocal public complaints from those GOP senators over the last two weeks, the White House has yet to offer a serious solution to their concerns, according to two Republican aides who say the immigration funding will remain stalled until it does.”