2026年5月20日 美国东部时间下午5:18 / CNN
作者：埃利斯·金、安妮·格雷尔
更新于2026年5月20日 美国东部时间下午5:50
发布于2026年5月20日 美国东部时间下午5:18
内容摘要
- 宾夕法尼亚州共和党众议员布莱恩·菲茨帕特里克表示，他正在寻求阻止这笔近18亿美元的基金。
- 许多国会共和党人称自己对该基金毫不知情，正紧急了解其细节。
- 美国司法部表示，该基金将由总检察长任命的五名董事会成员监督，其中一人将在与国会协商后选出。
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一名共和党国会议员表示，他正在寻求终结特朗普领导的司法部设立一项由纳税人出资的“反武器化”基金的举措，此举很可能招致总统唐纳德·特朗普的不满。
宾夕法尼亚州共和党众议员布莱恩·菲茨帕特里克对记者表示，他“百分百”希望阻止这笔可能用于补偿特朗普盟友的近18亿美元基金推进。
“在我们查清资金来源后，我们将起草立法文本。我们得先搞清楚我们有哪些管辖权，这是第一个问题，”他周三说道，随后还致信司法部要求就该基金给出解释。
菲茨帕特里克是一名温和派议员，其所代表的选区在2024年总统大选中支持卡玛拉·哈里斯。他是本党首位公开明确反对该基金并誓言阻止其落地的议员。近期他还在特朗普的其他优先事项上持反对立场——比如为特朗普的东翼舞厅翻新提供拨款——这引发了特朗普威胁要为其招募初选对手。
然而，国会山的多名共和党人正私下紧急了解该基金的更多信息，以及他们可以发挥哪些监督作用，这凸显出总统所在政党的议员们往往在关键行政举措出台前毫不知情。
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参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩表示，他预计下一个财年的拨款程序将对该基金进行审查。
“我的假设是，鉴于该消息公布后出现的一些反弹，人们会对其给予大量关注，”图恩周二对记者表示。
参议院拨款委员会主席苏珊·柯林斯在周二的参议院听证会上敦促代理司法部长托德·布兰奇提供更多细节，询问每项索赔将支付多少金额、做出这些决定的法律依据，以及与索赔相关的信息是否会公开。
布兰奇承认设立该基金“不同寻常”，但辩称“这并非史无前例”。
司法部本周早些时候的公告显示，用于这些和解的资金将来自该部门早已设立的一项永久性拨款，用于处理案件和解，即判决基金。根据司法部的说法，总检察长将任命五名董事会成员监督该基金，其中一人将“经协商”后由国会领导层选出。
但众议院议长迈克·约翰逊周三表示，“我们对该和解基金的任何细节都一无所知”。
一位处理过联邦就业案件和解的消息人士指出，判决基金原本就用于处理此类和解，认为所谓的反武器化基金的设立更像是一场带有政治影响的夸张新闻发布会，并称这并未改变法律程序。
尽管如此，鉴于事先未征求他们的意见，大多数共和党人仍在努力了解该基金的基本情况。
众议院监督委员会主席詹姆斯·科默表示，他直到看到相关新闻报道才得知该基金的存在。
与此同时，众议院拨款委员会主席汤姆·科尔对CNN表示，他既未被咨询，也未事先收到任何关于本届政府设立该基金及其用途的通知，并表示他正在调查是否需要采取任何立法行动。
“我对此一无所知。我还没看到相关文件，也不知道它在立法层面是什么。所以我真的没什么可说的，”科尔说道。
One GOP congressman is vowing to end Trump’s $1.8 billion compensation fund for allies
2026-05-20 5:18 PM ET / CNN
By Ellis Kim, Annie Grayer
Updated May 20, 2026, 5:50 PM ET
PUBLISHED May 20, 2026, 5:18 PM ET
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, in December 2025.
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Summary
- Pennsylvania GOP Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick said he is exploring ways to block the nearly $1.8 billion fund.
- Many congressional Republicans say they were left in the dark about the fund and are scrambling to learn its details.
- The Department of Justice says the fund will be overseen by five board members appointed by the attorney general, with one chosen after consulting Congress.
AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.
One Republican congressman says he is exploring ways to end the Trump Justice Department’s move to establish a tax-payer fueled “anti-weaponization” fund, a move likely to draw the ire of President Donald Trump.
Pennsylvania GOP Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick told reporters he “100%” wants to prevent the nearly $1.8 billion fund that could compensate Trump’s allies from moving forward.
“Once we get to the bottom of the source of the funding, we’re going to put legislative text together. We got to figure out what we have jurisdiction over. That’s the first question,” he said Wednesday, later sending a letter to the Justice Department demanding answers about the fund.
Fitzpatrick, a moderate who represents a district that voted for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, was the first in his party to publicly reject the fund outright and vow to stop it. He has recently bucked some of Trump’s other priorities – like funding for his East Wing ballroom – and provoked the president’s threat of backing a primary opponent against him.
A number of Republicans across the Capitol, however, were scrambling behind the scenes to learn more about the fund and what oversight role they can play, underscoring how lawmakers in the president’s own party are often left in the dark about key administration moves.
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune said that he expects scrutiny over the fund to occur through the appropriations process for the next fiscal year.
“My assumption is that, based on some of the blowback that’s come since this was announced, that there would be a significant amount of attention paid to it,” Thune told reporters Tuesday.
Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins pressed acting Attorney General Todd Blanche for more details in a Senate hearing on Tuesday, asking how much will be paid for each claim, the legal basis for those decisions and whether the information related to the claims will be publicly available.
Blanche acknowledged that the creation of the fund “is unusual” but argued that “it is not unprecedented.”
The DOJ’s announcement earlier this week outlines that the money to enact these settlements will come from a permanent appropriation already established for the department to settle cases, called the judgment fund. According to the department, the attorney general will appoint five board members to oversee the fund, one of whom will be chosen “in consultation” with congressional leadership.
But House Speaker Mike Johnson said Wednesday that “we don’t know any of the details of that settlement fund.”
A source with experience settling federal employment cases noted that the judgment fund already exists to handle such settlements, arguing that the establishment of the so-called anti-weaponization fund felt more like an overblown press release with political ramifications and saying it does not change the legal process.
Still, most Republicans are trying to learn the basics about the fund given they were not consulted ahead of time.
House Oversight Chair James Comer said he did not know anything about the fund until he read news reports about it.
House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole, meanwhile, told CNN he was not consulted or given any heads up about the administration’s creation of this fund or how it would be used and said he was looking into whether any legislative action is required.
“I don’t know anything about it. I haven’t seen it yet. I don’t know what it is legislatively. So I really don’t have anything to say,” Cole said.
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