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The Trump administration signaled Monday it is backing off on the creation of a\u00a0$1.8 billion fund\u00a0announced by the Justice Department that could send money to allies of President Donald Trump deemed to be \u201cvictims of lawfare and weaponization.\u201d<\/p>\n

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It comes after a\u00a0fierce and rare backlash\u00a0from Senate Republicans, who threatened to team up with Democrats to block the fund. About half the Republican conference appeared ready to vote with Democrats to restrict or kill it, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said last week.<\/p>\n

In a\u00a0statement, the Justice Department cited a\u00a0Friday ruling\u00a0by a federal judge that blocked the fund on a temporary basis, saying it \u201cdisagrees strongly\u201d but \u201cwill abide by the Court\u2019s ruling.\u201d<\/p>\n

That judge had only issued an order that temporarily blocked DOJ from taking any further actions on the fund until the court more fully assesses the arguments from both parties; it did not permanently block the fund. A hearing on the issue had been set for June 12.<\/p>\n

That order came after a Jan. 6 prosecutor who was fired by the Trump administration, and others,\u00a0sued to challenge the fund\u00a0in the Eastern District of Virginia. The head of the group that filed that suit \u2014 Skye Perryman, president and CEO of Democracy Forward \u2014 said Monday that it would be a \u201cmajor victory\u201d if the Trump administration was \u201cabandoning its illegal slush fund\u201d but said they would continue challenging for the time being.<\/p>\n

\u201cUntil the administration fully abandons the scheme, it\u2019s beyond dispute that it will not recur, and our clients\u2019 harm is remedied, we will be in court challenging it,\u201d she said. \u201cWe look forward to the government\u2019s response to the courts and to our filings, and to prevailing on behalf of our clients.\u201d<\/p>\n

The announcement is aimed at restarting the party-line \u201creconciliation\u201d bill Republicans are trying to push through Congress to fund ICE and Border Patrol through the end of Trump\u2019s term in office. Those two agencies were left out of the Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill earlier this year. That push\u00a0stalled two weeks ago\u00a0before the Memorial Day recess due to the \u201canti-weaponization\u201d fund.<\/p>\n

On Capitol Hill, Democrats have threatened to go all out to shut down the fund \u2014 through amendments in the reconciliation bill and potentially forcing votes on standalone legislation to prevent the administration from reviving it later.<\/p>\n

And they\u2019re not convinced by the administration\u2019s suggestion that it will backtrack on pursuing the fund.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Trump and Republicans are truly abandoning this corrupt scheme, they should have zero problem banning it in law,\u201d Schumer\u00a0said. \u201cThis week, Senate Democrats will push legislation to ban this slush fund and ensure no president can ever do this again. Trump\u2019s word is nowhere near enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., did not directly say Monday whether Republicans would support a standalone bill to shut down the weaponization fund.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know, but I do think that the best way to handle it is if the administration decides to shut it down themselves,\u201d Thune said.<\/p>\n

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When asked if the administration needs to be clear that they won\u2019t try to bring back the fund, Thune replied, \u201cThat would be the ideal outcome. But I don\u2019t know what they\u2019re gonna say.\u201d<\/p>\n

Democrats have threatened to force votes on amendments to block the money. And numerous Republicans ripped into it during a private meeting on May 21 with acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, according Cruz, who said he personally supports the fund but that the White House would have \u201ca full-on revolt in the Senate\u201d if it stayed the course.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy guess is they\u2019re probably 45 senators in the room, at least half of them were blasting the attorney general, and they were pissed,\u201d Cruz said on his podcast \u201cVerdict\u201d the following day. \u201cThere were multiple senators yelling at the Attorney General, saying this feels like self-dealing.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was a \u201cjailbreak of Republicans who were bolting, who were saying we\u2019re going to vote with the Democrats and basically kill reconciliation because of this judgment fund,\u201d Cruz added.<\/p>\n

Republicans control a 53-47 majority in the Senate, and an even narrower 217-212 margin in the House. Numerous Republicans have openly criticized the $1.8 billion fund.<\/p>\n

At least three other suits had been filed over the lawsuit: Two in Washington, D.C., and another in the Southern District of California. One of the D.C. lawsuits was\u00a0filed by two officers who protected the Capitol on Jan. 6.<\/p>\n

A federal judge in Florida who had overseen Trump\u2019s $10 billion IRS lawsuit, which led to the out-of-court settlement between the administration and Trump\u2019s private attorneys that established the fund, had separately asked for further briefing after 35 retired federal judges wrote that the settlement was a product of \u201ccollusion\u201d and \u201c.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Justice Department was supposed to name five commissioners \u2014 all of whom could have been fired at whim by Trump \u2014 within 30 days of the\u00a0settlement that established the fund on May 18, but never made any announcements about the commissioners.<\/p>\n

Schumer took to the floor Monday to warn that the fund, as proposed, could funnel taxpayer money to \u201cMAGA billionaires, cop-beating January 6 insurrectionists and [Trump\u2019s] own family.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump is claiming that the slush fund is dead for now. But Democrats will not stop until it\u2019s well and truly buried and can never see the light of day,\u201d Schumer said. \u201cRepublicans can try to wriggle their way out of answering for this corruption. If Republicans try to force through their reconciliation bill again, the first amendment I will offer will be to ban the slush fund permanently, and forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

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