2026-06-03 / 《华盛顿邮报》
共和党参议员林赛·格雷厄姆在社交媒体上提议国会设立自己版本的基金，此前特朗普政府宣布将放弃近18亿美元的相关基金计划。
2026年6月3日 美国东部时间下午2:12 今日美国东部时间下午2:12
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参议员林赛·格雷厄姆（南卡罗来纳州共和党人）提议依据《联邦侵权索赔法》设立一项基金。（奇普·索莫德维拉/盖蒂图片社）
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共和党议员周三表示，他们继续反对一项拟议中的18亿美元赔偿基金，该基金旨在为那些声称遭到政府不公平调查的个人提供赔偿，而议员们即将就这一问题进行带有政治敏感性的投票。
参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩（南达科他州）表示，在代理司法部长托德·布兰奇周二宣布司法部将放弃设立“反武器化基金”的计划后，大多数共和党人感到安心。
“我认为我们大多数议员对他的言论都相当满意——他是在公开听证会上宣誓作证的，”图恩周三对记者表示。
围绕唐纳德·特朗普总统提出的赔偿基金的争议，威胁到共和党快速推进一项和解法案的努力，该法案主要旨在为移民海关执法局和国土安全部提供资金。多名议员推动加入限制该基金的条款。周三午间发布的该法案草案未包含任何与该基金相关的内容。
周三，一些参议院共和党人表示，他们希望确保该基金无论如何都无法推进。
参议员汤姆·蒂利斯（北卡罗来纳州）周三对记者表示，他将提交一项修正案，“使该基金无法运作”。他补充说，只有在获得领导层保证他的阻止基金的修正案将进行投票的情况下，他才会投票同意开始审议预算法案。
“这是一个巨大的政治隐患，”蒂利斯说。“我们必须扼杀它。任何告诉总统这是个好主意的人都犯了错误。我们需要在这里采取行动。它正在制造我们不需要的逆风。”
参议员约翰·康尼恩（德克萨斯州）也表达了类似的担忧，他周三上午在X平台上分享了一篇《华尔街日报》社论的链接，该社论敦促国会完全阻止该基金。他转发了社论中的一句话：“要确保特朗普报复基金彻底‘死亡’，国会应将其彻底扼杀。”
尽管布兰奇周二发表了上述言论，但司法部三号官员分享并随后删除了一条支持国会设立自己版本拟议基金的社交媒体帖子，这重新引发了一些困惑。
副司法部长斯坦利·E·伍德沃德 Jr. 分享了参议员林赛·格雷厄姆（南卡罗来纳州共和党人）的一条社交媒体帖子，该帖子提议国会设立自己版本的基金。伍德沃德此前表达了对这一想法的支持，随后删除了他的帖子。
“全国各地有很多被拜登司法部武器化的受害者……我提议我们设立一个武器化基金，那些能够通过《联邦侵权索赔法》证明自己针对联邦政府的索赔的人可以使用该基金，”格雷厄姆周二晚间在X平台上写道。
“我们正在处理，”伍德沃德在他删除的X平台回复中说道。
格雷厄姆和司法部官员均未回应就国会设立自己版本基金的想法置评的请求。
布兰奇周二证实赔偿基金将被取消——这让特朗普政府得以缓解议员们的担忧，即纳税人的钱可能会用于赔偿2021年1月6日袭击国会大厦的人员。这标志着国会共和党人罕见地违抗特朗普的时刻。
该基金是一项广泛和解协议的一部分，作为交换，特朗普撤回了他在2019年针对美国国税局提起的100亿美元诉讼，该诉讼涉及泄露他的机密税务记录。作为该协议的一部分，司法部还同意免除特朗普及其家人此前提交的纳税申报表相关的任何未决或未来的起诉或调查。在周二的听证会上，布兰奇证实，即使解散该基金，和解协议的这一条款仍将保持不变。
参议院将于周三下午就开始审议预算法案的动议进行投票。这将开启对该法案的辩论，随后进行多轮投票，允许参议员们尝试修改预算法案——包括通过修正案就赔偿基金进行投票——然后最终通过该法案。
民主党人也誓言将提出措施，阻止政府未来推进该基金。
“美国人民需要承诺不仅以书面形式，而且以法律条文形式阻止特朗普的腐败，”参议院少数党领袖查尔斯·E·舒默（纽约州）周三上午在 floor 演讲中表示。“我问图恩领袖，我问每一位共和党参议员：如果你认为这个分肥基金应该被禁止，如果你认为特朗普不应获得税收豁免，那你为什么不直接投赞成票，确保我们将其写入法律呢？”
任何关于该基金的拟议修正案都有可能获得足够支持获得通过，这对共和党领导层构成了挑战。
杰里米·罗巴克对本报道有所贡献。
Senators from both parties strongly oppose payout fund as difficult votes loom
2026-06-03 / The Washington Post
GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham suggested on social media that Congress create its own version, after the Trump administration said it would back down from its nearly $1.8 billion fund.
June 3, 2026 at 2:12 p.m. EDT Today at 2:12 p.m. EDT
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) suggested creating a fund under the Federal Tort Claims Act. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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Republican lawmakers signaled Wednesday their continued opposition to a proposed $1.8 billion payout fund for individuals who claim they were unfairly investigated by the government, as they prepare to take politically charged votes on the issue.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (South Dakota) said most Republicans were reassured after acting attorney general Todd Blanche said Tuesday that the Justice Department would abandon its plans to create the “Anti-Weaponization Fund.”
“I think that most of our members feel pretty satisfied with his comments — that they were in a public hearing under oath,” Thune told reporters Wednesday.
The dispute over President Donald Trump’s payout fund threatened Republican efforts to fast-track a reconciliation bill that mostly aims to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security, as several lawmakers pushed to add language reining in the fund. A draft of that bill released midday Wednesday did not include any language about the fund.
On Wednesday, some Senate Republicans indicated they want to ensure the fund cannot move forward at any point.
Sen. Thom Tillis (North Carolina) told reporters Wednesday he would file an amendment that would “render the fund inoperative.” He added that he would only vote to start debating the budget package if he gets assurances from leadership that his amendment blocking the fund will get a vote.
“This is a huge political liability,” Tillis said. “We just need to nip this. Whoever told the president it was a good idea made a mistake. We need to take action here. It’s creating headwinds that we don’t need.”
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) echoed similar concerns, sharing a post on X on Wednesday morning linking to a Wall Street Journal editorial that urged Congress to block the fund entirely. He highlighted a line from the piece that said, “The way to ensure the Trump retribution fund is more than mostly dead would be for Congress to put a stake through it.”
Despite Blanche’s comments Tuesday, some confusion reignited, after the Justice Department’s No. 3 official shared, and then deleted, a social media post in support of Congress creating its own version of the proposed fund.
Associate Attorney General Stanley E. Woodward Jr. shared a social media post by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) suggesting that Congress create its own version of the fund. Woodward expressed support for the idea before later deleting his post.
“There are many victims of the weaponized Biden Justice Department throughout this country. … I am proposing that we create a weaponization fund that will be available to those who can prove their claim against the federal government through the Federal Tort Claims Act,” Graham wrote on X on Tuesday evening.
“We’re on it,” Woodward said in his deleted response on X.
Neither Graham nor Justice Department officials responded to requests for comment about the idea of Congress creating its own version of the fund.
Blanche’s confirmation Tuesday that the compensation fund would be scrapped — allowing the Trump administration to assuage lawmakers’ concerns that taxpayer money might be used to compensate people who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — had marked a rare moment in which congressional Republicans defied Trump.
The fund was created as part of a broad settlement in exchange for Trump dropping a $10 billion lawsuit he filed against the IRS over the leak of his confidential tax records in 2019. As part of that deal, the Justice Department also agreed to release Trump and members of his family from any pending or future prosecutions or investigations involving their previously filed tax returns. At the hearing Tuesday, Blanche confirmed that element of the settlement would remain intact, even with the dissolution of the fund.
The Senate is set to vote on the motion to proceed to the budget package Wednesday afternoon. This would open up debate on the bill followed by several votes, allowing senators to try to make changes to the budget package — including votes on the payout fund— via amendments before final passage.
Democrats have also vowed to offer measures blocking the administration from pursuing the fund in the future.
“The American people need the commitment to stop Trump’s corruption not only in writing, but codified in law,” Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (New York) said in a floor speech Wednesday morning. “I ask Leader Thune, I ask every Republican senator: If you believe the slush fund should be banned, if you believe Trump shouldn’t get tax immunity, then why wouldn’t you just vote yes and make sure we put it into law?”
Any proposed amendment on the fund risks gaining enough support to be adopted, posing a challenge for Republican leadership.
Jeremy Roebuck contributed to this report.
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