The promised end of President Trump’s “anti-weaponization” fund won’t necessarily stop the Department of Justice (DOJ) from making payouts to those who argue they’ve been wronged by the government and who are instead eyeing new pathways to access federal money.

After acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the controversial fund would “not be moving forward,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) noted that the aggrieved have always had a pathway for getting settlements from the government.

“We have a legal system already in place for people to make claims against the government. That does not need to be reinvented,” he wrote on social platform X this past week, encouraging would-be claimants to pursue settlements under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA).

The U.S. government has a limitless pot of money to pay out settlements for claims made against it that are held in the so-called Judgement Fund. Now many Jan. 6, 2021, defendants and others who say they were victims of weaponization have begun filing FTCA claims in the hopes of getting a payout through existing channels.

Michael Caputo, a former spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services under the first Trump administration, was among the first to apply for compensation from the “anti-weaponization” fund, arguing he was a victim of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation over a documentary he made about Hunter Biden.

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