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DOJ Abides by Weaponization Fund Ruling, Likely Easing Senate Gridlock

The Department of Justice has chosen to abide by a federal judge’s block on an “Anti-Weaponization Fund” created as part of a settlement agreement in President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in a move that could clear the way for passing a major border security funding bill.

The $1.77 billion fund was meant to “provide a systematic process to hear and redress claims of others who suffered weaponization and lawfare,” per the DOJ.

“This Fund was open to anybody who was so weaponized, targeted, or persecuted, whether they were Democrat, Republican, Conservative, Independent, or otherwise,” the DOJ wrote in a statement Monday, expressing disagreement but adding it “will abide by the Court’s ruling.”

In May, senators left Washington, D.C., after failing to agree on a party-line budget bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security immigration enforcement agencies for the rest of Trump’s administration.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection have not received funding via the typical bipartisan process after the longest ever shutdown of the agency, in which Democrats refused to fund the agencies without Congress enacting restraints on them. Republicans are attempting to pass a budget reconciliation bill to fund the agencies, a legislative process which allows the Senate to enact sweeping budgetary changes with a simple majority.

Among the sources of Republican discontent........

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