Political gravity is coming for some of Trump’s most jarring ideas

The move follows criticism from some Republican lawmakers and a federal court order temporarily blocking the fund while legal challenges proceed.

Democrats push for legislation to end fund and revoke Trump's tax audit immunity

Moreover, since the acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, unveiled the fund on 18 May to settle a $10bn lawsuit Trump filed against the IRS over a leak of his tax returns in 2019, critics have blasted a fund “addendum” that blocks IRS action on any pending tax probes of Trump, his sons and their businesses.

Last week, a federal judge in the capital temporarily blocked the Trump administration from “taking any further action pursuant to the creation or operation of the Anti-Weaponization Fund,” designed to pay out victims of alleged government wrongdoing.