House Democrats are launching a discharge petition to force a vote on permanently blocking the Trump administration's nearly $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund . Why it matters: The petition tests whether Republicans' complaints about the fund will turn into votes to kill it and whether Democrats can keep using discharge petitions to drag sensitive Trump fights onto the House floor over GOP leaders' objections. - A staggering eight discharge petitions have garnered the necessary 218 signatures to force a House vote this congressional session, meaning the tactic cannot be dismissed as a hopeless long-shot. - The Justice Department scrapped the fund earlier this month after intense backlash from lawmakers in both parties. - But…
Former Trump campaign advisor and Assistant Secretary of HHS Michael Caputo joined “America Right Now” to break down the history, intentions, and future of the proposed Anti-Weaponization Fund — a plan to utilize the federal Judgment Fund to provide restitution for individuals who claim they were wrongly targeted by political weaponization.
President Trump sued his own administration, settled and will now spend $1.776 billion of taxpayer money to pay people who say the government targeted them politically. Why it matters: The "Anti-Weaponization Fund" turns a personal Trump settlement into a new government program, shields decisions on who gets the money from the courts and limits information about what the public knows about where the funds go. The backstory: Trump sued the IRS and Treasury in January for $10 billion over the 2019 leak of his tax returns. The settlement gives Trump, his sons and the Trump Organization a formal apology but no money, and it bars the IRS from auditing Trump's past tax returns. - Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, Trump's former criminal…
