Would Trump’s $1.776 billion ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’ have come out of the same federal funds that would have been used to pay the remaining survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre under Rep. Al Green’s proposed bill?

According to the DOJ, the “anti-weaponization” fund would come from the federal Judgement Fund, the same indefinite appropriation used to pay judgements and settlements such as those proposed in Rep. Al Green’s bill. 

The Judgment Fund, created in 1956, allows the government to promptly pay judgments against it. Considerable changes have been made since, including the transfer of authority to the Justice Department and the elimination of most disclosure requirements.

Critics have warned against its potential misuse; the executive branch has the authority to pay large sums without congressional involvement, as in the Obama administration’s $1.7 billion payment to Iran in 2016.

Trump’s “anti-weaponization” fund remains indefinitely blocked by a federal judge in the distinct absence of a written or sworn repudiation of it from the administration.  

Green’s bill, which would have paid supercentenarians Viola Fletcher and Lessie Randle, stalled in the House last year. Fletcher passed away last November.