The Justice Department issued a new memo detailing how the Trump administration's "anti-weaponization fund" will work after questions from lawmakers mounted about who would benefit, and how President Donald Trump might wield influence.
PBS News obtained the one-page summary given to Republican senators Thursday on the $1.776 billion billion fund, which was put in place following a settlement between Trump and the Internal Revenue Service that ended a lawsuit over the president's leaked tax returns.
The summary says the fund was created to help people "who were victims of lawfare and weaponization," including millions of Americans "whose online speech was censored at the behest of the government, parents silenced at schoolboards, Senators whose records were secretly subpoenaed, churchgoers targeted by the FBI, and so on."
The memo also indicates that the Trump family cannot benefit from the fund, though it doesn't specify how that will be enforced.
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Democrats can submit claims, according to the structure outlined by the agency's summary.
"There is no partisan restriction," the summary says.
Read the full DOJ summary below.