Thom Tillis has become increasingly outspoken during Donald Trump’s second term, including after Tillis announced he would not seek re-election to the Senate seat held since 2014. Tillis has traded public barbs with Trump, including criticism of Trump’s shifting support in the Texas Senate primary runoff involving Ken Paxton and John Cornyn. The latest dispute centers on Trump’s Anti-Weaponization Fund, announced by the Department of Justice as part of a settlement over leaked tax returns. Critics argue the president is both plaintiff and controller of government agencies, that funds could be distributed without congressional approval, and that pardoned January 6 rioters may seek money from the fund. Tillis calls the proposal absurd and morally wrong.
"Tillis has been increasingly outspoken during Trump's second term, especially after announcing he would not run for re-election to the Senate seat he has held since 2014. Even before Trump finally endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton against incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) in the bitterly fought Texas Senate primary runoff, Tillis had blasted Trump for backing off from a reported initial plan to endorse Cornyn, calling it a mistake and bemoaning Republicans allowing this internecine election battle to continue to fester as lazy and unstrategic."
"Lately, Trump and Tillis have publicly sparred over the president's Anti-Weaponization Fund, which the Department of Justice announced last week it would create as part of an agreement to settle a lawsuit Trump, his sons, and the Trump Organization had filed against the IRS for leaking their tax returns. It's been a highly controversial move for multiple reasons and has been denounced as a slush fund by critics, including by some Republicans like Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who said it was utterly stupid, morally wrong."
"The main objections to the fun include the fact that Trump as president is now in the role of both the plaintiff in his lawsuit and in charge of the defendant government agencies, how the fund purports to allow distribution of funds without congressional approval, and January 6 rioters who were pardoned by Trump are seeking a share of the funds even those who assaulted law enforcement officers. Tillis has lambasted the slush fund as stupid on stilts during an interview with a local reporter, arguing that it was absurd that this fund wou"
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