The Justice Department on June 2 dropped a contentious plan to create a $1.8 billion compensation program that critics had denounced as a "slush fund" for President Donald Trump's political allies.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., had previously said Republicans were in discussions with the White House about changing the fund.

The Trump administration is reportedly giving up on the $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund.”

Not even Donald Trump’s own party could get behind the fund.