{"id":23530,"date":"2026-06-02T17:47:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/doj-fund-is-being-set-aside-johnson-says-amid-gop-confusion\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T17:47:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:47:26","slug":"doj-fund-is-being-set-aside-johnson-says-amid-gop-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/doj-fund-is-being-set-aside-johnson-says-amid-gop-confusion\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ fund is ‘being set aside,’ Johnson says amid GOP confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Speaker Mike Johnson<\/a> said in an interview Tuesday he believes a controversial “Anti-Weaponization Fund” and security funding for a White House ballroom are both “off the table” for the GOP’s stalled immigration enforcement bill.<\/p>\n

“I think the president’s been pretty clear via the Department of Justice \u2014 their statement [is] that it’s now being set aside,” Johnson said. “So I understand there’s some senators that want a little more than that, but in terms of clarification, so I suppose they’re in the process of doing that.”<\/p>\n

The DOJ statement Monday said it would “abide by” a temporary court order blocking payouts from the fund. But several Senate Republicans said they wanted further assurances<\/a> that the fund is defunct.<\/p>\n

Johnson said the fund, which could be used to pay prosecuted allies of President Donald Trump, and a proposed $1 billion in Secret Service money that could be used in part for Trump’s ballroom project are “two separate issues.” Blue Light News reported last month<\/a> that Senate Republicans had decided to drop the security funding entirely.<\/p>\n

“But I think they’re both off the table with regard to reconciliation,” he added, referring to the party-line budget process Republicans are using to move the bill.<\/p>\n

Johnson met with Trump Monday morning and raised issues<\/a> about the Anti-Weaponization Fund’s viability given the Senate backlash. Some House Republicans are also opposed to green-lighting the fund and are working to force a vote on legislation to ban any future attempts by Trump or anyone else to create it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speaker Mike Johnson said in an interview Tuesday he believes a controversial “Anti-Weaponization Fund” and security funding for a White House ballroom are both “off the table” for the GOP’s stalled immigration enforcement bill. “I think the president’s been pretty clear via the Department of Justice \u2014 their statement [is] that it’s now being set […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23530","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=23530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}