Senate Republicans killed a Democratic effort to permanently ban President Donald Trump's anti-weaponization fund. Photo by Samuel Corum/UPI | License Photo
June 4 (UPI) -- Senate Republicans killed an effort by Democrats to permanently prevent President Donald Trump's $1.8 billion 'anti-weaponization' fund from being created.
The amendment to a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security would have permanently prevented the Trump administration from enacting the fund, which has been criticized as a way to reward its allies, CNN and The New York Times reported.
Although Trump's nominee for attorney general, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, said during a hearing on Wednesday in front of a House subcommittee meeting the fund is "not moving forward," he balked at putting it in writing.
The fund was created as part of a settlement in Trump's lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over a leak of his tax return to the media.
