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By Richard Cowan and Nolan D. McCaskill WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) – Republicans in the U.S. Congress have revolted over President Donald Trump’s $1.776 billion fund for people he says were victims of government “weaponization,” setting the stage for a searing battle less than six months before midterm elections. On Thursday, the Senate called timeout on a $72 billion spending bill on immigration enforcement, which has become a battleground over the “anti-weaponization” fund, after many Republican senators demanded that it either be killed or subjected to tough guardrails. Democrats, meanwhile, have also pledged to use the immigration bill to stage an attack on the fund. Just one day earlier, Senate Majority Leader John Thune blocked $1 billion in fede
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By Richard Cowan and Nolan D. McCaskill
WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) – Republicans in the U.S. Congress have revolted over President Donald Trump’s $1.776 billion fund for people he says were victims of government “weaponization,” setting the stage for a searing battle less than six months before midterm elections.
On Thursday, the Senate called timeout on a $72 billion spending bill on immigration enforcement, which has become a battleground over the “anti-weaponization” fund, after many Republican senators demanded that it either be killed or subjected to tough guardrails.
Democrats, meanwhile, have also pledged to use the immigration bill to stage an attack on the fund.
Just one day earlier, Senate Majority Leader John Thune blocked $1 billion in federal funding for a lavish White House ballroom that Trump has already begun building. He said he did not have the Republican votes for it.
On Friday, Trump shot back. 
“I am helping others, who were so badly abused by an evil, corrupt, and weaponized Biden Administration, receive, at long last, JUSTICE!” the president wrote on his social media platform.
This battle of wills between the president and his party, stoked by recent primary election victories of Trump-endorsed challengers over sitting lawmakers, threatens to intensify when Congress returns from recess next month, and could reverberate into the November midterms.
“The American people are going to reject this out of hand,” Republican Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina said of the anti-weaponization fund, whose beneficiaries could include those convicted in connection with the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
While many Republican senators were uncharacteristically mum coming out of a Thursday meeting on the spending bill, Tillis and others were clear on just how politically unpalatable the president’s demands had become.
“(The fund) could potentially compensate someone who assaulted a police officer, admitted their guilt, got convicted, got pardoned and now we’re going to pay them for that? That’s absurd,” Tillis, who is not running for reelection, said in a Thursday interview with Spectrum News.
LAWMAKERS MANEUVER OVER ‘ANTI-WEAPONIZATION’ FUND
Republican Representative Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, who faces a tough reelection battle this fall, teamed up with Democratic Representative Tom Suozzi of New York on legislation to prohibit the payment of any claims submitted to the fund.
Retiring Representative Don Bacon of Nebraska said the ballroom and anti-weaponization funds in the immigration spending bill had become “poison pills” for House Republicans who face tough reelection campaigns.
With Republicans holding only slim majorities in both houses of Congress, it would only take a handful of defiant lawmakers to defeat Trump’s  proposals.
But skepticism runs deep that congressional Republicans, who unt
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