Trump administration plans to drop DOJ’s $1.8B ‘lawfare’ fund, reports say

The fund was created as part of a settlement of President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service. It is intended to compensate people who were puportedly victims of prosecutorial overreach by the DOJ under the Biden administration.

Axios, in its report Monday, quoted a senior administration official as saying that the fund is “dead for now.”

Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman separately reported that “the administration is expected to announce that they are going to comply with the court order and not go forward on the weaponization fund.”

On Friday, a federal judge blocked the DOJ from taking any action to create or disburse money from the fund for now as a lawsuit challenging it plays out in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia.

Judge Leonie Brinkema also scheduled a June 12 court hearing on whether to maintain the injunction against the fund.

Brinkema is overseeing one of three federal lawsuits that seek to block the fund.

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