1. United States
2. Texas
3. Letter

On May 26, the Department of Justice deleted its public database of nearly 1,600 January 6 criminal cases, including documented convictions for assaulting police officers. The deletion came nine days after the administration announced the $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund. Those two facts belong together. January 6 left 140 officers injured and 5 dead. More than 600 of the 1,600 people Trump pardoned on day one of his second term had been convicted of assaulting the officers who defended the Capitol. Former Special Counsel Jack Smith told Congress in January 2026 that he would never understand why a president would mass-pardon people who attacked police. The Fraternal Order of Police, which endorsed Trump three times, condemned the pardons. Now the administration wants to compensate these same people from a $1.776 billion fund financed by taxpayers through the federal Judgment Fund. The fund has no published eligibility criteria and no judicial oversight. Records are kept confidential. At least 33 pardoned January 6 defendants have already been arrested for new crimes, including 6 child sex abuse cases and a felony threat to murder House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. January 6 cost taxpayers $2.7 billion in damages and prosecution per the GAO. Defendants were ordered to pay restitution and have paid only 15 percent of what courts ordered. Two Capitol officers beaten that day, Harry Dunn and Daniel Hodges, filed a federal lawsuit calling this fund the most brazen act of presidential corruption this century. The 14th Amendment, Section 4, prohibits paying debts incurred in aid of insurrection. That is not a technicality. That is the Constitution. I am demanding public congressional hearings on the deletion of January 6 records. President Trump and senior DOJ officials must testify under oath about who ordered the deletion and why it coincided with the fund announcement. Support legislation blocking Anti-Weaponization Fund disbursements to January 6 defendants. Co-sponsor a resolution demanding the deleted records be restored. And publicly oppose taxpayer money going to people who attacked our police officers and tried to overthrow our democracy. The officers who protected the Capitol have no dedicated federal compensation program. The people who attacked them have been offered $1.776 billion in taxpayer money. We will not accept it.