{"id":1572,"date":"2026-06-03T14:38:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T14:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2026-06-03T14:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T14:38:18","slug":"trump-suggests-he-hasnt-dropped-the-anti-weaponization-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=1572","title":{"rendered":"Trump suggests he hasn\u2019t dropped the \u2018anti-weaponization\u2019 fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<button><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<span><svg>\n<\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Summary<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<span><svg><\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span><svg><\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<\/button><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>President Donald Trump denied dropping the &#8220;anti-weaponization fund&#8221; in a podcast interview.<\/li>\n<li>The same day, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told Congress that the Justice Department was not moving forward with the fund.<\/li>\n<li>Many Republican lawmakers expressed concerns about the fund and sought assurances the Justice Department would completely drop it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<span>AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            President Donald Trump suggested that he has not dropped the administration\u2019s \u201canti-weaponization\u201d fund, saying in an interview released Wednesday that people \u201cshould be reimbursed.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=1570\">Scientists are cracking the code of interspecies communication. Is that a good thing?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cNo, a court ruled against (the fund),\u201d Trump said when asked if he had dropped the controversial effort on the New York Post\u2019s podcast \u201cPod Force One with Miranda Devine.\u201d The interview was taped on Tuesday.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            That same day, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told lawmakers that the Justice Department would not move forward with the fund.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But Trump argues in the podcast interview that people who he claims were targeted by a \u201ccrooked government\u201d deserve compensation. \u201cAnd these were many great people. And I gave them pardons. I\u2019m very proud to have given them pardons. And I think they should be reimbursed for a crooked government,\u201d he said.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            It\u2019s unclear how Trump\u2019s comments comport with Blanche\u2019s \u2014 and whether the administration\u2019s messaging will allay GOP lawmakers\u2019 concerns about the fund.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Blanche\u2019s comments marked the first time an administration official definitively said the fund is being abandoned. The Justice Department\u2019s about-face came amid fierce pushback from Republicans on Capitol Hill.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Many GOP senators said earlier this week that they could not move ahead with immigration enforcement funding until they knew the \u201canti-weaponization fund\u201d was dead.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            On Tuesday night, after Blanche\u2019s comments, Senate GOP leaders were pressing for a vote as soon as Wednesday to advance the $70 billion bill to fund the president\u2019s immigration priorities.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            A Republican aide on Wednesday downplayed the notion that Trump\u2019s comments on the podcast would impact Congress.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cI don\u2019t feel concerned about what he said,\u201d the aide said. \u201cDon\u2019t love it, but him saying a court ruled against it is about as close to \u2018yes I\u2019m dropping it\u2019 as we will get.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=1538\">Americans of all political stripes want to regulate ultraprocessed foods. Is anyone listening?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            The aide added that Blanche \u201cwas very clear\u201d during the hearing.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cWe are not moving forward with the fund, period,\u201d Blanche told a House Appropriations subcommittee.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cNot moving forward, ever?\u201d asked Democratic Rep. Grace Meng. \u201cCorrect,\u201d Blanche said.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            In a post on X, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham said he appreciated Blanche\u2019s statement but proposed creating \u201ca weaponization fund that will be available to those who can prove their claim against the federal government through the Federal Tort Claims Act.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward, Jr. responded to Graham\u2019s post saying, \u201cWe\u2019re on it.\u201d The post included no explanation and was later deleted.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Last week, a federal judge in Virginia had temporarily blocked the administration from taking steps to set up the fund and barred it from releasing any money from it.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But that ruling was highly technical; it didn\u2019t address the legality of the program but was instead intended to get the court time to review a lawsuit seeking to kill the program in full.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            During the podcast interview, Trump also praised the acting attorney general, who replaced Pam Bondi in April, saying that Blanche is \u201cdoing a very good job\u201d at DOJ.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            When asked if he would try to install Blanche permanently in the attorney general role, Trump said he would.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n<em>CNN\u2019s Devan Cole, Manu Raju, Hannah Rabinowitz, Holmes Lybrand and Ted Barrett contributed to this report.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=1532\">Supreme Court turns toward an explosive final month with Trump\u2019s priorities at stake<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump suggested that he has not dropped the administration\u2019s \u201canti-weaponization\u201d fund, saying in an interview released Wednesday that people \u201cshould be reimbursed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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