Overview
- The administration is pushing an unfinished plan for a $1.7 billion compensation fund, according to ABC News and the New York Times.
- The fund would pay people the administration says were wrongly targeted under the Biden-era Justice Department, including about 1,600 Jan. 6 defendants later pardoned by Trump.
- Trump has offered to withdraw his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS as part of the arrangement, the reports say.
- A five-member commission would award the money, keep its decisions private, and face at-will removal by the president, while the funding source remains unclear despite reported Treasury discussions.
- Democrats condemned the idea, in what Sen. Elizabeth Warren called Thursday's “crazy level of corruption,” and the White House has not commented as a judge separately questioned conflicts in Trump's IRS case.