‘For Now they say?’
Bloomberg: “The Trump administration intends to scrap a controversial $1.8 billion legal fund for victims of alleged government weaponization.”
“The move came after blowback from Republicans and Democrats, who derided it as a slush fund for President Donald Trump’s political allies. It’s the latest setback for the president, who recently suffered a court defeat over his plans to overhaul the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and has struggled to end the war in Iran.”
Said one source to Axios: “It’s dead for now.”
Punchbowl News reports that “the administration is expected to announce that they are going to comply with the court order and not go forward on the weaponization fund.”
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters at the Capitol on Monday that his preference would be that the White House shut down the proposed $1.8 billion so-called anti-weaponization fundif Congress is to pass a budget reconciliation package anytime soon.
“I made my views very clear on the issue,” Thune said.
Asked if he would prefer the administration abandon the proposed fund to compensate people who were prosecuted by the Biden-era Justice Department, Thune nodded yes.
“I do think the best way to handle it is if the administration decides to shut it down themselves,” he added.
A $72 billion budget reconciliation package to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol through 2029 stalled in the Senate before the Memorial Day recess after GOP senators balked at voting on the package without a clear plan about how to handle the administration’s controversial anti-weaponization fund….
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