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Tune in on this Morning Joe conversation with Axios White House reporter Marc Caputo discussing President Donald Trump’s decision to back away from a controversial $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund”—after facing bipartisan backlash and resistance from Congress—that would have compensated people claiming they were unfairly prosecuted by the government. “Mark, what's your sense from your reporting? There was a lot of discontent among some members of the United States Senate toward the fund. John Thune, in particular, said something that indicated he was not in favor of it. But do you think that this is a start to opposing Trump—being able to stand up and say out loud, ‘I don't like this,’ or is this a one off?,” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Caputo. Hear Caputo explain why many Republican lawmakers are politically “scared of” Trump—but why this was one proposal they “just can't eat.”
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Tune in on this Morning Joe conversation with Axios White House reporter Marc Caputo discussing President Donald Trump’s decision to back away from a controversial $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund”—after facing bipartisan backlash and resistance from Congress—that would have compensated people claiming they were unfairly prosecuted by the government. “Mark, what's your sense from your reporting? There was a lot of discontent among some members of the United States Senate toward the fund. John Thune, in particular, said something that indicated he was not in favor of it. But do you think that this is a start to opposing Trump—being able to stand up and say out loud, ‘I don't like this,’ or is this a one off?,” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Caputo. Hear Caputo explain why many Republican lawmakers are politically “scared of” Trump—but why this was one proposal they “just can't eat.”
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