Capitol Cops Sue Trump Over 1.8 Billion Dollar Insurrection Reward Fund

Two officers who bled defending the Capitol on January 6th are now taking the Trump administration to court, and the stakes couldn’t be starker. D.C. Metropolitan Police officer Daniel Hodges and ex-U.S. Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn filed suit Wednesday, accusing the administration of establishing a $1.8 billion“Anti-Weaponization Fund”designed to reward the very people who attacked them.

The lawsuit doesn’t mince words. Hodges and Dunn call the fund“the most brazen act of presidential corruption this century.”Their argument is straightforward and infuriating: this isn’t just misguided policy or partisan theatrics—it’s a slush fund that will line the pockets of January 6 rioters while simultaneously incentivizing future violence in Trump’s name. Over 150 officers were attacked or injured that day. Many required hospitalization. Some still deal with physical and psychological trauma. The idea that taxpayer dollars might now compensate those who hurt them feels like a wound being rubbed in salt.

Context matters here. Trump has already issued nearly 1,600 presidential pardons related to January 6. That staggering number alone signals a wholesale reversal of accountability. But a dedicated fund—one with nearly two billion dollars backing it—represents something different. It transforms pardons from legal clemency into what Hodges and Dunn describe as active financial incentives for insurrection.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent are also named as defendants. The suit challenges not just the legality of the fund but the administration’s fundamental approach to January 6: rather than justice for those who were attacked, there’s compensation for those who attacked. For officers like Hodges and Dunn, who physically put their bodies between rioters and Congress, that’s not just salt in the wound—it’s a betrayal wrapped in bureaucracy.

Whether the courts agree remains to be seen. But the lawsuit itself is a powerful statement from those with the most credible claim to speak about that day: the men and women who lived through it.