Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) is expected to introduce two new pieces of legislation targeting payouts from the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) new $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund.

One piece of legislation would block the DOJ from issuing payouts from the fund to President Trump, Vice President Vance, members of Congress, congressional staff, political appointees, senior executive branch employees, and presidential campaign employees, according to Semafor.

The other bill aims to ban payouts from lawsuits filed by Trump and Vance retroactive to 2025, per the outlet.

“Trump’s multi-billion-dollar slush fund is the most brazen act of self-dealing corruption we’ve ever seen,” Schiff wrote in a Tuesday statement on the social platform X.

“We need to shut it down before he uses it to pay cop beaters, cronies, and other criminals. I’m introducing legislation to stop it,” he added.

Schiff isn’t the only lawmaker to raise concerns with the anti-weaponization fund created as a part of a settlement between the IRS and Trump in addition to his sons, who filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the agency for leaking the president’s old tax returns.

Even some Republican elected officials have raised concerns over the lack of guidelines in regard to payouts.

Some have speculated that individuals who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and promoted Trump’s false claims of winning the 2020 election could be compensated.

“Imagine that, a fund that is set up to compensate people who assaulted Capitol Police officers and other responding agencies. People that had pled guilty to physical acts … may actually be able to get compensated. How absurd does that sound coming out of my mouth?” Republican Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.) said.

Former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) also blasted the move.

“So the nation’s top law enforcement official is asking for a slush fund to pay people who assault cops? Utterly stupid, morally wrong — Take your pick,” McConnell said in a statement issued after GOP senators met with acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.

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