The Justice Department has a bottomless pot of money that can be used to settle legal claims made against the government.

The Justice Department said it will abide by a federal court order pausing the fund, which also faced fierce Republican opposition in the Senate

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the Justice Department won't move forward with President Donald Trump's nearly $1.8 billion \

The DOJ said it was abandoning plans for the fund, which critics feared would be used to give taxpayer money to Jan. 6 rioters, but plans to bar the I.R.S. from auditing Trump’s…

Jan. 6 defendants were already seeking payments before the fund was created.

Despite the DOJ saying it is scrapping plans to launch a $1.8 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund," many Jan. 6 defendants are still eying payouts using other legal paths.

The Justice Department has a bottomless pot of money that can be used to settle legal claims made against the government.

Jan. 6 rioters are betting that Trump will still have their backs — and there’s an easy way he could pay them.

The administration is already sitting on a virtually endless pile of cash to pay settlements in cases against the government

A federal judge last week temporarily blocked the $1.8 billion fund from being used after a Jan. 6 prosecutor sued to block the Trump administration’s actions.

The DOJ on Friday said that the "Anti-Weaponization Fund" won't go forward.