“Dead…For Now” - Trump ABANDONS $1B Weaponization Fund Plan
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🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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President Trump is reportedly backing away from a controversial $1.8 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund" after facing intense criticism from both Democrats and members of his own party. The proposed fund became a political flashpoint on Capitol Hill, raising concerns about how the money could be used and threatening to derail key Republican legislative priorities, including an immigration enforcement package.
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| 0:21.8 | Dot-court-Ur.K.combe slash podcast to learn more. Trump abandons the $1.8 billion. |
| 0:27.0 | In humiliating U-turn as his own party turns against them, of course, that's daily mail. |
| 0:32.4 | I'll read this to Donald Trump, abandoners the $1.8 billion. The fund was created as part of a settlement of Trump's $10 billion |
| 0:38.9 | auto lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over a leaking the 2019 tax return to the media. |
| 0:44.9 | Lawmakers from both parties have criticized the president and labeled its slush fund. |
| 0:48.6 | It's now being killed after Speaker to House Mike Johnson raised objections to the White House fund during a private meeting with the president on Monday afternoon. |
| 0:56.6 | It's dead for now. |
| 0:57.7 | One senior administration told, Axios, Republicans have opposed the fund over fears. |
| 1:04.1 | It would provide monetary compensation to J6 capital riders who assaulted police. |
| 1:09.2 | John Thune is holding hostage a bill Trump wanted to fund immigration enforcement. |
| 1:15.3 | The GOP leader said he would not advance the legislation until Republicans received |
| 1:19.3 | assurance that the fund would not be used to pay the president's allies. |
| 1:23.8 | Tom. |
| 1:24.6 | So two things going on in this thing. |
| 1:27.0 | First of all, there are people that didn't |
| 1:29.5 | like it because they don't like who's getting paid. Because if the J6 people, Pat, let's say some |
| 1:35.0 | person, J6, is given $200,000 to help cancel out all those legal bills that they had that they |
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