Newsom vows 100 percent tax on DOJ ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’ payouts

https://www.politico.com ^ | May 27 2026 | Tyler Katzenberger and Nick Reisman

[Beowulf9]

SACRAMENTO, California — Gavin Newsom vowed Wednesday to tax any payouts that California residents receive from a $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund that Donald Trump secured in a settlement with his own Justice Department, as Democratic lawmakers in states across the country ramp up efforts to counter the president on the measure.

[rktman]

More:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4381321/posts

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4381300/posts

😊👍

[antidemoncrat]

Gee, $1.776 billion is just a little more than Osama Obama flew to Iran in the middle of night so they could continue to build nukes and the ICBMs needed to deliver them to the US.

[MikelTackNailer]

What rationality is there behind that? It seems that the more President Trump finds ways to accomplish things without tax monies the more Democrats pitch tantrums over it.

They are destructive and evil.

[God luvs America]

the same rationality which comes from states that continue to tax tips despite a Federal Bill that says no taxes on tips...

Yet people will still vote for these aholes...

[bigbob]

U-Haul the big beneficiary

[captmar-vell]

Newsom wants to do for America what he’s done for California.

[fruser1]

Sounds like the kind of tyranny that the second amendment is meant to address.

[MarlonRando]

what’s the Joker up to now

[bray]

No Kings but Dictators are just fine.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

That would be yet another violation of the Constitution by California.

[packrat35]

Democrats are quick to scream dictator, but they are always the ones acting like one.

[PeterPrinciple]

100 percent tax rate?

[Midwesterner53]

State theft. Clear and simple.

[rktman]

Good to be the king. I guess. 🤔😊👍

[Still Thinking]

Newsom wants to do for America what he’s done for California.

Newsom wants to do for to America what he’s done for to California. FIFY.

[Still Thinking]

When one makes it to the Presidency, you get the dictaster-in-chief.

[Skwor]

Bill of Attainder, 100% unconstitutional

[Obadiah]

Completely unconstitutional. You cannot single out a subset of people for clearly punitive tax purposes.

[Freee-dame]

“ anti-weaponization fund” is such a stupid Title. It describes nothing. Democrats are so good with words, even though they’re dishonest. Republicans, only the other hand, are terrible with words. How can a man who came up with the amazingly wonderful motto “make America great again” use the word “weaponization”. No one knows what it means, much less how it is being specifically used here.