US President Donald Trump\u2019s US$1.8 billion \u2060fund to compensate victims of alleged government \u201cweaponisation\u201d has been put on hold, two sources familiar with the plan said on Monday.<\/p>\n
The fund emerged from a legal settlement between Trump and the \u200cJustice Department to resolve an unprecedented lawsuit in which the president had sued the Internal Revenue Service for US$10 billion over the alleged mishandling of his tax records.<\/p>\n
The US$1.776 billion was meant to pay people who said they had been the subject of government abuse.<\/p>\n
The fund \u2060sparked swift legal challenges and political uproar, including from Senate Republicans, who expressed \u200canger that people who attacked the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, could receive taxpayer-funded payouts.<\/p>\n
Critics condemned it as \u200ca slush fund. On Friday, federal judges in Virginia and Florida dealt the administration \u2060a pair \u2060of blows, issuing orders that temporarily halted the fund until June 12 and called for \u200cfurther review.<\/p>\n
In a statement on Monday, a Justice Department spokesperson said the DOJ \u201cdisagrees strongly\u201d with the temporary \u200chalting \u200cof the fund but, \u201cthe department will abide by the court\u2019s ruling\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump\u2019s US$1.8 billion \u2060fund to compensate victims of alleged government \u201cweaponisation\u201d has been put on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":999042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5311],"tags":[21336,32,577,20889,157684,141356,22177,141359,277191,49,978,277192,659,18772],"class_list":["post-999041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-doj","tag-donald-trump","tag-florida","tag-internal-revenue-service","tag-irs","tag-john-thune","tag-justice-department","tag-senate-majority-leader","tag-senate-republicans","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-us-capitol","tag-usa","tag-virginia"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116676860797108339","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/999042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}