New deal ‘forever’ blocks IRS claims against Trump family businesses, Dems say ‘outrageous’

New details are emerging about President Trump's settlement with the IRS, and they're drawing new questions about a deal that already created a nearly $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund

Newly released language would also bar the IRS from pursuing claims or examinations involving Trump, his family, or related businesses

Investigators discovered the new terms Tuesday in an addendum linked to the Justice Department's settlement announcement

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche wrote that the federal government is, quote

forever barred and precluded from prosecuting or pursuing any and all claims asserted by the IRS against Trump, his family, or his business

The language covers tax matters, including Trump, family members, trusts, companies, and other related entities

The addendum expands on Monday's agreement that created the roughly $1.8 billion fund

for people who claim they were targeted by government weaponization during the Biden presidency

The administration is pushing back against criticism that the fund or the agreement benefits the president personally

Here's Vice President J.D. Vance on Tuesday. The question is, is a dollar of this money going to the Trump administration? No

Is a dollar of this money going to Donald Trump personally? No. Is a dollar of this money going to Donald Trump's family? No

The people that would get the money are people, some of whom have been prosecuted completely

disproportionate to any crime they ever committed Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche defended the agreement during congressional testimony It is true that this is unusual That is true

But it is not unprecedented, and it was done to address something that had never happened again either

So there is an unprecedented nature of what we did yesterday in response to years and years of weaponization

Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward said it's too soon to pass judgment on the new fund

I think that it's way, way, way too early for us to rush to judgment on whether this was a good or a bad idea

to describe it as a slush fund, or really even to criticize it

You know why? Because there's not been a single claim filed. There's not been a single payment made

Critics see it very differently. Democratic Senator Chris Murphy told reporters the judge in the case even called it corrupt

because Trump was essentially suing himself. We've never, ever seen anything like this before

I get it that people don't know what a big number is anymore, but $1.7 billion, that's a lot of money

That's your taxpayer money. You worked hard for that money. And that money is now going into a political slush fund for the president to give to January 6th rioters

to hand out to his political allies around the country. That's outrageous

Massachusetts Democrat Richard Neal accused Trump of turning the federal government into, quote, his personal protection racket

Writing on X, this corruption marks a dark day for democracy