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President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, June 3, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Alex Brandon)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he was not sure whether a proposed $1.8 billion fund for people claiming political persecution was dead, a departure from acting attorney general Todd Blanche\u2019s more definitive assurance of the fund\u2019s demise a day earlier.<\/p>

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\u201cI\u2019d have to ask the lawyers,\u201d Trump said when a reporter asked him whether the fund was dead or just on hold. \u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

A day earlier, Blanche told lawmakers on Capitol Hill that the administration is \u201cnot moving forward with the fund. Period.\u201d<\/p>\n

The president\u2019s vaguer response is likely to roil Republican lawmakers<\/a>, many of whom are sharply opposed to the fund and pressured the White House to abandon it by threatening to derail a $72 billion immigration enforcement funding package that Trump badly wants.<\/p>\n

After Blanche\u2019s assurance that the fund was dead, all Senate Republicans<\/a> voted to move forward on the budget package, which advanced 53-46 along party lines Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Even so, many Democrats and some Republicans said they wanted a more formal assurance that the administration had dropped any intention of creating such a fund, and several said they would introduce amendments to the immigration bill officially killing the idea.<\/p>\n

When asked why he dropped the fund, Trump suggested it was because \u201ca radical-left judge ruled against it.\u201d<\/p>\n

U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema on Friday paused work on the fund pending a June 12 hearing on the matter. The administration has suggested she had permanently and definitively shut down the fund \u2014 a far broader reading than conveyed by the judge\u2019s language.<\/p>\n

Trump spoke of his \u201clove\u201d for the idea of a payout fund aimed at people who claimed they were the targets of political prosecutions by the government. The proposal has been sharply criticized by lawmakers in both parties as a vehicle that would reward the president\u2019s allies, including those who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.<\/p>

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\u201cWe\u2019ll see how that all works out,\u201d Trump said. \u201cBut a radical-left judge ruled against it, but these people, their lives have been destroyed, their families have been destroyed, many of them. Not just, I\u2019m not just talking about a few people, many of them. I\u2019m one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump also suggested that the people who swarmed the Capitol that January day in 2021 in an effort to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden\u2019s victory had done so \u201cwith love.\u201d He talked about a \u201ctremendous crowd\u201d that gathered early in the day during a speech he delivered.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd there was so much love and friendship. It was the most amazing thing. People were crying,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n

The pro-Trump mob at the Capitol that day assaulted police officers and ransacked lawmakers\u2019 offices. Many members of Congress were evacuated or barricaded themselves in their offices.<\/p>\n

Trump cut off the reporter when she pressed him on Republican lawmakers\u2019 concerns that \u201cpeople who beat up cops\u201d would be eligible for payments from the fund.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s unexpected Oval Office session with reporters was his first public appearance \u2014 and his first exchange with the White House press corps \u2014 in about a week, an unusually long time for him.<\/p>\n

The hiatus unfolded as Trump faced several setbacks,<\/a> including a judge\u2019s ruling against the president\u2019s plans for the Kennedy Center, the delay in reaching a deal with Iran and the loss of a Trump-endorsed candidate in Iowa.<\/p>

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