From the New York Times, I'm Rachel Abrams, and this is The Daily.

In a move that shocked lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.

President Trump is dropping his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS.

The Democrats and others are crying foul over what his administration plans to do instead.

The Justice Department announced an almost $2 billion fund of taxpayer money to compensate

people that the administration claims have been victims of, quote, weaponization and

lawfare.

Among those who could apply for payouts, the nearly 1,600 rioters charged in connection

with the January 6th Capitol

insurrection.

This is reimbursing people that were horribly treated, horribly treated.

It's anti-weaponization.

Today, my colleague, Andy Duren, on the story of how this came about, who might get the money,

and the bipartisan outrage that has ensued.

He's setting up a $1.7 billion political slush fund for the proud boys and the oathkeepers

and his other political lieutenants and hangers on.

I think that there are a lot of questions that the administration is going to have to answer.

It's Wednesday, May 20th.

So we have talked a lot on the daily about President Trump's campaign of retribution against his enemies in his second term,

how he's wielded the federal government to do that.

And this week, it feels like we entered

into a new chapter of that story with the creation of this enormous fund. We're going to talk

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