There’s no shortage of questions surrounding the Trump administration’s controversial new $1.776 billion fund. White House friends and foes alike have wondered aloud about who’ll receive taxpayer-financed checks, who’ll administer the project and whether there will be any congressional or judicial oversight.
But there’s another question hanging overhead: Is the so-called anti-weaponization fund even legal?
On Wednesday morning, former Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn, perhaps best known to much of the public for his testimony to the bipartisan House Jan. 6 committee, and former Metropolitan Police Officer Daniel Hodges, who also defended the Capitol on Jan. 6, filed a lawsuit to block the Trump administration’s fund. The lawsuit, filed with the Public Integrity Project, seeks to invalidate the Republican administration’s fund, claiming that it emboldens violence against police and rewards sedition.
MS NOW’s Britt Miller spoke to Dunn about the lawsuit and this week’s developments. The decorated officer said:
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Steve Benen is a producer for “The Rachel Maddow Show,” the editor of MaddowBlog and an MS NOW political contributor. He’s also the bestselling author of “Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans’ War on the Recent Past.”
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