The Anti-Weaponization Fund Was The Right Thing to Do. Which Is Why Washington Crushed It.
For one brief moment the federal government proposed to do something it almost never does, which is to concede that its own machinery had been turned into a weapon and to offer the people it crushed a route to redress. The now infamous Anti-Weaponization Fund was seeded with a deliberately symbolic $1.776 billion drawn from the Judgment Fund under the settlement of the President’s suit over his own leaked tax returns.That is precisely what they moved to crush it.A single federal judge in the Eastern District of Virginia froze the fund within days, with a hearing on whether to extend the block set for 12 June, and the same establishment that spent a decade swearing the agencies were neutral suddenly located deep constitutional misgivings about compensating the agencies’ victims.Democratic governors and legislators raced to smother any payout that survived the courts, with Gavin Newsom even vowing to tax California recipients at 100 percent and copycat bills appearing in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Wisconsin, alongside a federal measure its own authors were proud enough to brand the SLUSH FUND Act. That this single idea provoked so much coordinated outrage is a massive tell.
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