https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/trump-drop-plans-1-8-201048047.html(Bloomberg) -- 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 expected decision comes amid 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.The person spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the decision before it was announced. They did not provide further details on the administration’s plans, including whether it would affect a provision of the settlement between Trump and the Internal Revenue Service that barred the agency from pursuing any probes into his tax returns.Lawmakers and legal plaintiffs urged the administration to clarify as quickly as possible its plans after the Justice Department put out a statement that only addressed one part of a legal challenge to the fund.Asked if the administration should make clear the fund won’t be established, Senate Majority Leader John Thune said “that would be the ideal outcome.”“The best way forward is for the administration to shut it down themselves,” Thune told reporters at the Capitol.The fund faced multiple lawsuits, including from police officers who responded to the attack on the Capitol. A federal judge in Virginia last week temporarily barred the administration from taking steps to operate the fund while she weighed a longer-term block.The Justice Department said Monday it “disagreed strongly” with the decision but said it “will abide by the Court’s ruling.”
One of the organizations that sued to challenge the fund, Democracy Forward, released a statement from its president, Skye Perryman, saying that while an end to the agreement “would be a major victory for people in America” they didn’t intend to immediately drop their lawsuit.“Until the administration fully abandons the scheme, it’s beyond dispute that it will not recur, and our clients’ harm is remedied, we will be in court challenging it,” Perryman said.Several Republican senators recently threatened to hold up an immigration enforcement package and balked at providing taxpayer funds for a White House ballroom Trump is seeking to build.The fund was unprecedented in many respects; typically the DOJ defends federal agencies such as the IRS in court rather than cut deals with billions at stake without a proper legal fight. The president’s own stance on the settlement has shifted.Earlier he said any money from his lawsuit would go to charity, but the fund was instead poised to benefit political allies, including potentially some of those who attacked the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in a failed effort to prevent the certification of the 2020 election, which Trump lost.In addition to the political firestorm that erupted over the fund, Trump’s administration was facing a multi-front legal fight.In a May 29 order, the Alexandria, Virginia-based federal judge scheduled a hearing for June 12 for further arguments in the case after temporarily barring the Justice Department from working to set it up.The order was not a final ruling on the lawfulness of the fund plan or even a preliminary ruling on whether the challengers were likely to succeed. The judge made clear that the order was meant to briefly maintain the status quo, writing at the time that she was entering it “to ensure that no funds are irreversibly disbursed.” The Virginia case is one of at least four lawsuits filed challenging the fund.
inb4 one of his dicksucking minions in Congress tries to pass a bill doing the same thing
although it's been attributed to Abe Lincoln, The French philosopher ,Jacques Abbadie once said,"You can fool some of the people some of the time, you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all of the time,”I will add this addendum: "but you can fool most of the people most of the time".
as the original Boomer tranny, Alice Cooper said, "only woman bleed"https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1yALNSd0iME
Just so I understand the right wing cuck position: A few million to make sure all Americans have health insurance is a wasteMaking sure convicted pedophiles get a billion dollar payout is absolutely requiredWhy are we pretending that MAGA aren't all pedophiles again?
>>1517752>A few millionlol. lel. lele even.How much does the US government spend on healthcare every year? Then answer may surprise an intentionally uneducated midwit liggeral.
>>1517765wow spamming shill anon, i almost forgot trump is a scamming pedophile who was humiliated by iran because of your post
>>1517765It'd spend less on healthcare if it eliminated the shitass middleman insurance companies.
>>1517775Maybe. But who will take them out of the mix?Democrats? Lol OMG, No. Obamacare, 'member it?Why should I argue against your whatifs? Can we keep things based in reality?Since Obamacare, the US government spends nearly 2 trillion a year on healthcare. It is by far the biggest expense.So, your greed-based complaint about "a million for healthcare" is pretty fucking retarded, isn't it?
>>1517777god you're esl
>>1517778yuracellSlapnuts wants attention huh? Hi!
>>1517717how about we fund it using the assets of actual domestic terrorists aka the anti-ice everyone involved in CHOP and everyone at an antifa/no king rally.No one will miss them
>>1517788>welel
>>1517788>Let's just steal the assets of people I disagree with. Remind me how I'm not a fascist again? I'm a massive faggy moron and I forgot.How about we fund it with the faggot you follow's multiple billions he's obtained since taking office with the pump and dump schemes he's been running nakedly without opposition on the stock market?
It's official, trump's latest scheme to steal billions is a DOAhttps://www.huffpost.com/entry/todd-blanche-trump-anti-weaponization-fund_n_6a1f39e7e4b032392fa6c7b3?34
