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Posted on 05/24/2026 8:59:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has the right instinct on the Department of Justice's new $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund.
The idea behind the fund deserves a fair hearing; Americans who were targeted by abusive federal power should have some path toward relief, especially after years of lectures from the same political class pretending government weaponization only exists when Democrats campaign on it.
Still, a good idea turns rotten fast once Washington gets control of the checkbook.
President Donald Trump's administration created the fund as part of a settlement connected to Trump's lawsuit over the leak of his tax records. The agreement gives Trump and his family a formal apology but no monetary payout.
The fund would compensate Americans claiming abuse, with a five-member commission expected to handle claims. On paper, relief for real victims sounds defensible. In practice, however, loose language and weak oversight make almost any large federal fund look like an invitation to mischief.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche defended the fund before senators and argued the process would help people hurt by politicized investigations or prosecutions. Blanche also didn't rule out potential claims from people tied to Jan. 6 cases, including applicants who may argue the government unfairly treated them.
Cruz and other Republicans had reason to press him hard: a program built to correct abuse can't become a fog bank where eligibility rules appear after the money starts moving.
Cruz described the closed-door Republican meeting with Blanche as close to a revolt, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) acknowledged members had real questions about how the fund would work.
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A fund created to remedy political abuse should never rely on political discretion as its operating system.
As if on cue, Democrats already call the fund corrupt, and their outrage has a familiar theatrical quality. From the Independent.
Democrats have also sharply condemned the proposal. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., wrote in a letter to Blanche on Wednesday that “the notion of the federal government doling out compensation to rioters” is “absurd and offensive.”
On Thursday, Reps. Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y., and Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., introduced bipartisan legislation that would prohibit federal funds from being used for the program.
Many of them showed far less curiosity when federal power ran against conservatives, pro-life activists, parents at school board meetings, Trump associates, and others who believed the system hand-picked sides.
Their hypocrisy doesn't erase the need for discipline. A Republican administration shouldn't answer double standards by creating a new system critics can attack fairly as sloppy, secretive, or self-serving.
If the $$$ was going to a BLM Slush fund & DEI seed money, they’d stick it in a bigger bill - call it the Sunshine for all Bill, and quickly pass it.
Nice AI writeup.
Make the government thugs who abused their power pay out of their own pockets to make their victims whole. That would be the just thing to do.
As soon as the full congressional sexual harassment slush fund details are made public we cant talk about congress’s ideas about how the weaponization fund should work. Until then they including Cruz, and STFU.
Time to scrap the Weaponization Fund. it is going nowhere.
“Time to scrap the Weaponization Fund. it is going nowhere.”
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People are already raising hell with their representatives and Senators over the slush fund, and it’s just a bad idea overall.
If any of the Jan 6 people have a valid claim, they should use the same system that’s used for every other claim against the government - the courts. That would require evidence.
Is stacy abrams in charge of this fund
Wow - Cruz gets one right.
Lately, he seems to have forgotten what a asshat he was - I thought he had “reformed”.
The opposition will be far less potent if fund supporters go all out to tell the public how the victims of the weaponization suffered unjustly. The case for compensation is easy to
make, but Republicans must get the word out via issue ads, speeches, articles, etc
Amen, brother.
Evidence is so passe’.
Any mention of the 10s of millions of dollars that were handed out to rappers and celebrities during covid’s Biden years. Oh no, that wasn’t corruption. /s
Two things about this fund.
First, it is a legal settlement and not the Senate’s money. Trump probably should have settled with the funds coming to him and he then sets up a fund out of that money. The Senate would have nothing to say about it.
Second, it is interesting how these childish Senators are complaining about this when not too long ago, they passed legislation that allowed them, and only them, to sue the government because they were spied on by Biden’s DOJ. So, when it comes to money for them, it is a-ok. The entire senate is filled with corrupt scum.
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