The Trump administration plans to drop the Department of Justice's $1.8 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund" in the face of legal and political pushback to it, reports said Monday.
The fund was created as part of a settlement of President Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service. It is intended to compensate people who were purportedly victims of prosecutorial overreach by the DOJ under the Biden administration.
Reports that the fund was being put on ice came after House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., met with Trump at the White House about the fund.
"I do think the best way to handle it is if the administration decides to shut it down themselves," Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., told reporters on Monday.
Axios, in its report Monday, quoted a senior administration official as saying that the fund is "dead for now."
