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AG Blanche meets with GOP senators on Trump's DOJ fund; Tillis calls it 'stupid'
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- Thom Tillis, R-N.C., told Spectrum News in an interview about the $1.8 billion fund, which was created to settle an unrelated lawsuit by President Donald Trump against the Internal Revenue Service.
- "The American people are going to reject this out of hand."
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is meeting with Republican senators on Thursday morning about the Department of Justice's controversial "lawfare" fund, as pushback grows in Congress over the idea of paying out settlements to people who attacked police during the U.S. Capitol riot in 2021.
"I think it's stupid on stilts," Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., told Spectrum News in an interview about the $1.8 billion fund, which was created to settle an unrelated lawsuit by President Donald Trump against the Internal Revenue Service.
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