NC-SEN: Whatley backs Trump's $1.8B 'anti-weaponization fund' despite GOP revolt on Capitol Hill
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) has been one of the most outspoken Republican critics of President Donald Trump’s controversial $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” to compensate Trump supporters who were prosecuted by former President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice.
But the Republican nominee to succeed him, Michael Whatley, said he emphatically supports Trump’s proposal.
Asked at a Brunswick County GOP event on Wednesday if he will be on the president’s side on the fund, which has faced fierce objections from senators on both sides of the aisle, Whatley committed to doing so in remarks first reported by Punchbowl News.
“I will be because I have been with him since 2015,” Whatley said on an audio recording of the event. “We’ll see how they implement it and what they’re going to do with it. I mean, they overstretched with the ridiculous persecution.”
https://ncnewsline.com/2026/05/22/whatley-backs-trumps-1-8b-anti-weaponization-fund-despite-gop-revolt-on-capitol-hill/