The Department failed to respond to Congress, and instead, on May 18, 2026, announced that it had settled an unrelated IRS lawsuit with President Trump to create a $1.8 billion slush fund to compensate alleged victims of DOJ 'weaponization,' including his allies and January 6 insurrectionists.
Senators urging DOJ to reject payouts for January 6 rioters.
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The fossil fuel industry and their allies bought their way into the Trump White House with hundreds of millions of dollars in political donations.
And when we have more clarity on that they’ll be back-and-forth to try to resolve those issues.
We need to get rid of dark money in our politics because it’s rotting our politics.
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