Republican lawmakers are expressing skepticism about a Justice Department fund created to provide money for people who feel they have been politically persecuted.
On Monday, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced he was allocating $1.776 billion of taxpayer money for a new “Anti-weaponization Fund” to pay out claims from “others who suffered weaponization and lawfare.”
But lawmakers are concerned about lax oversight for doling out the money and who would benefit from it. Congress will have limited oversight of the fund as it would be run out of DOJ.