{"id":23246,"date":"2026-05-26T02:22:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T02:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/tillis-ramps-up-criticism-of-doj-compensation-fund-its-politically-tone-deaf\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T02:22:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T02:22:20","slug":"tillis-ramps-up-criticism-of-doj-compensation-fund-its-politically-tone-deaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/tillis-ramps-up-criticism-of-doj-compensation-fund-its-politically-tone-deaf\/","title":{"rendered":"Tillis ramps up criticism of DOJ compensation fund: \u2018It\u2018s politically tone deaf\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) took another swipe at the Justice Department&#8217;s nearly $1.8 billion &ldquo;anti-weaponization fund,&#8221; an initiative that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have criticized in recent days. &#8220;I call it a payout pot for punks,&#8221; Tillis said Sunday on BLN&rsquo;s &ldquo;State of the Union.&#8221; &#8220;It makes no sense&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5893971-thom-tillis-donald-trump-doj-compensation-fund-scrutiny\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) took another swipe at the Justice Department&#8217;s nearly $1.8 billion &ldquo;anti-weaponization fund,&#8221; an initiative that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have criticized in recent days. &#8220;I call it a payout pot for punks,&#8221; Tillis said Sunday on BLN&rsquo;s &ldquo;State of the Union.&#8221; &#8220;It makes no sense&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}