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Republicans in Congress are preparing for legislative action to end or at least place guardrails around the $1.8 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund.<\/p>\n

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The Justice Department announced the fund last week as part of a settlement with President Trump in his lawsuit over the IRS\u2019 leak of his tax returns.<\/p>\n

The idea is to let others seek damages if they think they were targeted by the Biden administration\u2019s Justice Department via overzealous prosecutions or surveillance on political grounds.<\/p>\n

The announcement\u2019s timing disrupted Senate Republicans\u2019 plan to pass a filibuster-proof immigration and law enforcement funding bill before Memorial Day. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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Democrats warned they would use the open amendment process to put GOP senators on record over whether they backed the president\u2019s \u201cslush fund.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s horrible politics. It\u2019s horrible timing,\u201d said Sen. Thom Tillis, North Carolina Republican, also calling the fund \u201cstupid on stilts\u201d and warning it \u201cmay look like self-dealing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Tillis, speaking Sunday on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union,\u201d said his colleagues are discussing how to address the matter when they return to the funding package next month.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t at all doubt that there will be amendments to rescind the agreement and to defund it, to do whatever they can,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Republican senators voiced their concerns about the Anti-Weaponization Fund in a Thursday meeting with Attorney General Todd Blanche at the Capitol.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were fireworks at an epic level, and I got to say it\u2019s one of the roughest meetings I\u2019ve seen in my entire time in the Senate,\u201d Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, said on his podcast last week.<\/p>\n

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He said of the roughly 45 Republican senators who attended the meeting, \u201cat least half of them were blasting the attorney general, and they were p\u2014\u2014-.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were multiple senators yelling at the attorney general, saying, \u2018This feels like self-dealing. This feels like Trump cut a cut a deal with himself,\u2019\u201d Mr. Cruz said.<\/p>\n

Mr. Blanche told senators that Mr. Trump and his family were not eligible to receive compensation and provided a legal rationale for the fund, according to Mr. Cruz, who said he is a \u201cbig supporter\u201d of providing relief to U.S. citizens targeted by the Biden administration\u2019s weaponization.<\/p>\n

But Mr. Cruz said there were 20-some other Republicans who were prepared to support Democratic amendments dismantling the fund that would sink the filibuster-proof funding package. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s going to be some change to this judgment fund. I don\u2019t know what it\u2019s going to be, but it will be something that the White House and the Department of Justice agrees on,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re going to announce it, because if nothing changes, we don\u2019t have the votes to secure our border, and it is unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Tillis suggested that modifications alone would not be enough, saying, \u201cThere\u2019s no way you\u2019re going to make it better in its current form.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He and Mr. Cruz both confirmed that one of the main concerns Republican senators raised was that rioters who assaulted police officers at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, would qualify for compensation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI call it a payout pot for punks,\u201d Mr. Tillis said.<\/p>\n

Mr. Cruz said Mr. Blanche was \u201cadamant\u201d that anyone who assaulted law enforcement or committed an act of violence would not be eligible.<\/p>\n

Sen. Ron Johnson, Wisconsin Republican and a fund supporter, said the GOP will hopefully unify around an amendment that addresses the concerns and ensures people who committed acts of violence cannot access the fund.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll probably come up with some kind of guardrails,\u201d Mr. Johnson said on Fox News\u2019 \u201cSunday Morning Futures.\u201d<\/p>\n

Guardrails are not enough for some Republicans, such as Pennsylvania Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick.<\/p>\n

He has teamed up with his fellow Problem Solvers Caucus co-chair Tom Suozzi, New York Democrat, on legislation to block any money from being spent on the Anti-Weaponization Fund.<\/p>\n

Mr. Fitzpatrick and Mr. Suozzi spoke about their bill in a joint interview Sunday on ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week.\u201d<\/p>\n

The measure would amend a 1956 law that set up a permanent appropriation called the Judgement Fund, which is what the Justice Department is tapping to create the $1.8 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund.<\/p>\n

Mr. Fitzpatrick said the law was intended to ensure money existed to pay judicially approved judgments and settlements in cases brought against the U.S. government.<\/p>\n

Throughout the 1960s, the intent of the statute was watered down and the appropriation turned into \u201ca pre-populated fund that the attorney general has broad discretion to pay out of,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The bill Mr. Fitzpatrick and Mr. Suozzi introduced would restore the original intent of the statute. They are eying a discharge petition on the measure, which would require 218 signatures to force a floor vote.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s our job in the Congress, in the Senate and the House to hold the executive branch accountable,\u201d Mr. Suozzi said. \u201cI think the dam is finally starting to break the closer we get to the elections and the more people see that they\u2019re going to be held accountable to the voters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Fitzpatrick said a lot of Republicans have told him they support his legislation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll see how many actually join us in the effort by putting pen to paper and putting their name on it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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