BREAKING: Trump’s $1.8 billion “weaponization” slush fund is dead
Trump’s plan to hand out $1.8 billion in taxpayer money to people who claimed they were targeted by prosecutors under Biden has collapsed, and it couldn’t have happened to a more deserving scheme.
The so-called “weaponization” fund, which critics from both parties called exactly what it was, a political slush fund with no guardrails, ran into a wall of bipartisan opposition in the Republican-controlled House and Senate. Senior administration officials confirmed to Axios that the proposal is finished, with one source putting it bluntly: “It’s dead for now.”
The fund was always a transparently self-serving idea. Trump wanted a $1.8 billion pot of money that could flow to people convicted in connection with the January 6th attack on the Capitol, all dressed up in the language of justice reform. Even Republicans who have spent years doing whatever Trump asks finally drew a line at writing blank checks to insurrectionists.
This is what happens when a scheme is so obvious, so shameless, and so politically toxic that even MAGA allies in Congress can’t defend it. The votes weren’t there. The public wasn’t buying it. And now it’s gone.
Whether it stays dead is another question entirely.