Blanche won't rule out Jan. 6 rioters getting Trump DOJ fund payouts

Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche testifies during a Senate Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related AgenciesHearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on May 19, 2026 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Tuesday would not rule out allowing people convicted of assaulting police officers during the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot to seek payments from a new Department of Justice fund created to compensate people who claim they were politically targeted by the Biden administration . Pressed at a Senate appropriations subcommittee hearing, Blanche said, "anybody in this country can apply" to a new $1.8 billion " Anti-Weaponization Fund " and said a commission would decide the rules for who can receive compensation. "The commission will set the rules," Blanche said when asked whether members of the Proud Boys , Oath Keepers or others convicted of attacking Capitol Police officers could receive payments. "That's not for me to set. That's for the commissioners." Blanche also declined to commit that donors to President Donald Trump 's campaigns would be excluded from the fund, saying only that the payments would be governed by the settlement agreement. …