Happening now billion dollar fund backlash,

the so-called weaponization fund is now facing swift outrage

for members of the president's own party,

as the acting attorney general says January 6 rioters can apply.

And from the pit to Capitol Hill,

why actor Noah Wiley is at a health care rally in D.C.

And faster than expected, U.S. intelligence now showing that Iran has already restarted

some of its drone production. We're going to bring you the new exclusive reporting just ahead.

Plus, bolstering military power, the U.S. aircraft carrier strike group is now in the Caribbean, as tensions with Cuba escalate.

Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world.

I'm Wolf Blitzer with Pamela Brown, and you're in the Situation Room.

Happening now, President Trump is facing new outrage and growing opposition.

It's over as controversial fund to compensate those who claim to have been targeted by a weaponized legal system.

This morning, critics are blasting the $1.8 billion fund because it's widely expected to benefit President Trump's allies, and that would possibly include

the January 6 rioters, even those who attacked police at the U.S. Capitol. Two police officers who defended the Capitol on that day

are suing to block it. We were the first to report this in the situation room yesterday.

The lawsuit filed by Harry Dunn and Daniel Hodges call it, and I'm quoting them now,

the most brazen act of presidential corruption this century."

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And even some Republican lawmakers are breaking ranks with the president and vowing to kill it.

CNN's Manu Raju chased down some of those comments on Capitol Hill.

I will tell you my first reaction was this doesn't pass the smell test.

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