‘I Love It’: Trump Is Still in Favor of $1.8 Billion Payout Fund

Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, said on Tuesday that the administration was “not moving forward with the fund, period,” after the plan drew bipartisan backlash.President Trump on Wednesday in the Oval Office. In one of his first official acts of his second term, Mr. Trump issued a grant of clemency to the hundreds charged in connection with the Capitol attack.