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Few events in President Donald Trump\u2019s second term have prompted as much outrage as the announcement that the DOJ will create a $1.776 billion \u201canti-weaponization\u201d fund to compensate those \u201charmed\u201d by the Biden administration, which has been broadly denounced as a \u201cslush fund\u201d for convicted J6 criminals. There has been bipartisan discussion of how to block the fund, and now famed Esquire political commentator Charles P. Pierce<\/u> is applauding one \u201cimaginative\u201d idea. <\/p>\n

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Earlier this week, New York Democratic state assemblymember and House candidate Alex Bores unveiled legislation that would level a 100 percent tax against payouts from the fund. Then on Wednesday, California Governor Gavin Newsom gave even greater visibility to the idea, telling reporters, \u201cAnyone from California that receives any of those funds, we want to tax 100 percent of those proceeds.\u201d Other congressional Democrats have gotten behind similar efforts<\/u>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love this,\u201d said Pierce. \u201cThis is the kind of imaginative grassroots pushback the national Democratic party needs. The more that this incredibly corrupt bargain is subjected to public scorn and ridicule, the better.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the concept may have a hard time catching on among Republicans who are famously antagonistic toward enacting new taxes, conservative lawmakers have been so angered by the fund that they may be willing to take dramatic steps to oppose it. Even congressional Republicans who are usually hesitant to break with the president have blasted the move<\/u>, with former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell declaring, \u201cSo the nation\u2019s top law enforcement official is asking for a slush fund to pay people who assault cops? Utterly stupid, morally wrong \u2014 take your pick.\u201d <\/p>\n

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The tax idea hasn\u2019t been the only effort to stymie the fund. <\/p>\n

Shortly after it was announced, the Bipartisan Transparency for American Taxpayers Act<\/u> was introduced by Representatives Tom Suozzi (D-NY) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), which declared<\/u> simply that \u201cno federal funds may be used for the payment of any claim submitted to the Anti-Weaponization Fund, established by the Department of Justice on May 18, 2026.\u201d If enacted, it would essentially kill the fund. Representative Jamie Raskin (D-CA) introduced the No Taxpayer-Funded Settlement Slush Funds Act, which would similarly deny federal cash to the fund.<\/p>\n

Interestingly enough, in February, a slate of Republican lawmakers began pushing the Stop Settlement Slush Funds Act of 2026<\/u>, which has so far failed to gain traction. If enacted, it would prohibit government officials from entering into settlement agreements that divert funds to third-party organizations, with the intention of preventing the Executive Branch from circumventing Congress and steering settlement money to its preferred recipients \u2014 an exact description of the circumstances surrounding the J6 slush fund.<\/p>\n

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