The bad news keeps coming for President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
Axios is reporting<\/a> that Trump is pulling the plug on his treasured but wildly controversial $1.8 billion \u201canti-weaponization\u201d fund.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s dead for now,\u201d a source told Mark Caputo of Axios.<\/p>\n The Justice Department fund was meant to compensate Americans who felt that the federal government had been \u201cweaponized\u201d against them.<\/p>\n Critics were quick to pounce and call the fund a \u201cslush fund\u201d for Trump pals.<\/p>\n Axios reported that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) spoke with the president at the White House on Monday about GOP opposition to the fund.<\/p>\n Top Republican senators, including Ron Johnson and Thom Tillis, had spoken out against the fund.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it\u2019s stupid on stilts,\u201d Tillis said of the fund last month.<\/p>\n The senator added: \u201cIt will invariably put us in a position where your taxpayers\u2019 dollars and my taxpayer dollars could potentially compensate someone who assaulted a police officer, admitted their guilt, got convicted, got pardoned and now we are going to pay them for that. That\u2019s absurd.\u201d<\/p>\n Senate GOP Majority Leader John Thune had also slammed the fund.<\/p>\n MORE BY<\/p>\n TOM WROBLESKI<\/p>\n Surgeon makes ominous claim about Trump\u2019s \u2018perfect\u2019 health examJun. 1, 2026, 5:30 p.m.<\/a><\/p>\n Jill Biden ups ante in feud with Kamala Harris, pushes back at ex-veep\u2019s 2024 election claimJun. 1, 2026, 5:10 p.m.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cYeah, not a big fan. I\u2019m not sure exactly how they intend to use it. But my understanding is that was just announced,\u201d the Senate majority leader told a group of reporters. \u201cBut yeah, I don\u2019t see a purpose for it.\u201d<\/p>\n U.S. District \u200bCourt Judge Leonie Brinkema on Friday ordered the DOJ to refrain from setting up the fund amid a continuing legal clash over the issue.<\/p>\n The fund news comes amid massive problems with the Trump-backed America 250 concert as well as concerns over the separate UFC event that the president is staging at the White House.<\/p>\n Read the original article on silive.com<\/a>. Add silive.com<\/a> as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bad news keeps coming for President Donald Trump. Axios is reporting that Trump is pulling the plug…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[143],"tags":[4659,12,51340,478,8914,5156,44545,5893,987],"class_list":["post-96049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mike-johnson","tag-axios","tag-donald-trump","tag-mark-caputo","tag-mike-johnson","tag-ron-johnson","tag-speaker-mike-johnson","tag-the-justice-department","tag-thom-tillis","tag-white-house"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116677529309547459","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}