The Justice Department’s agreement to temporarily pause its anti-weaponization fund marks a rare retreat from President Donald Trump’s White House as a legal challenge unfolds and opposition from congressional Republicans threatens to blow up a party-line budget bill.
The department’s Monday announcement that it would “abide by” a court order pausing the creation and operation of the $1.776 billion fund comes after significant GOP pushback and is a rare, if only temporary, political loss for Trump on Capitol Hill as tensions grow with Senate Republicans.
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The judge’s ruling halted the operation of the fund only until June 12, when the next court hearing on the matter is scheduled. However, a Senate leadership aide told the Washington Examiner that leadership views the DOJ’s statement as a walk-back of the fund and an acknowledgment by the administration that it’s essentially unworkable among Senate Republicans.
Uproar over the fund’s creation, in addition to the inclusion of
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