President Biden’s team said he will be instructing his attorney general to review a Trump policy prohibiting the Justice Department from using tens of millions of dollars in bank settlement payments that Republicans criticize as a “slush fund” to leftist groups.
The Biden transition team released this week a “non-exclusive list of agency actions that heads of the relevant agencies will review” in accordance with an executive order on “Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis” signed Wednesday. The Biden team list said the Justice Department, which may soon be led by Judge Merrick Garland, Biden’s attorney general nominee, would be instructed to scrutinize one specific Trump-era rule.
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