Schumer promises litany of actions to halt Trump’s anti-weaponization fund

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) outlined on Monday a coordinated campaign Democrats are launching to stop President Donald Trump’s “anti-weaponization” fund.  

Trump said the $1.8 billion fund from the Justice Department was lawfully created as part of a settlement agreement he reached with the IRS to resolve his $10 billion lawsuit against the agency. The fund seeks to compensate individuals whom Trump said the Justice Department has wrongly targeted. 

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