STOP TRUMP ACT
Sponsored By: Representative Crockett, Jasmine [D-TX-30]
Introduced
Summary
This bill would bar federal funds from being used to compensate Presidents or their immediate families and affiliated entities for claims of political targeting or governmental "weaponization." It would also restrict Department of Justice representation in cases that could benefit the President and require repayment of any federal funds paid in violation, with civil recovery tools available to the Attorney General.
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- Presidents, immediate family members, and entities owned or controlled by them would be unable to use federal money to settle or collect claims that allege political targeting or weaponization.
- Current or former political appointees of the Executive Office and any individuals the President designates for preferential compensation, including persons who participated in the January 6, 2021 attack, would be barred from federal compensation for such claims.
- The Department of Justice would be limited from representing the United States in litigation where the President is a plaintiff or beneficiary and the requested relief could financially or politically benefit the President, family, or affiliates.
- Any agreement, settlement, compensation fund, claims commission, or similar mechanism set up to pay such claims would be void and unenforceable.
- Recipients who received federal funds in violation would have to repay them to the Treasury. The Attorney General could seek recovery through offsets, garnishment, liens, asset seizure, and other federal remedies.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
Require repayment of unlawful funds
If enacted, any person or entity that received Federal funds in violation of this bill would have to repay the full amount to the U.S. Treasury, including funds paid before enactment. The Attorney General would be directed to sue to recover those amounts and could use garnishment, attachment, liens, or seizure of traceable assets. The Treasury Secretary could offset repayment against tax refunds, grants, contracts, salaries, or benefit payments. Any agreement or settlement entered into in violation of the ban would be void from the start.
Ban on federal compensation funds
If enacted, federal officers and employees would be barred from creating, funding, or running any compensation fund, claims commission, restitution program, reimbursement mechanism, board, commission, task force, or adjudicatory body meant to pay people or organizations for alleged governmental "weaponization," political bias, selective enforcement, or retaliatory investigation. The ban would apply however the program is created, including executive orders, settlements, memoranda, consent decrees, or agency action. This restriction would take effect upon enactment.
Ban on federal payouts to President
If enacted, federal funds, including amounts from the Judgment Fund, would not be used to settle, compromise, satisfy, or pay claims brought by the President, the President's immediate family, entities they own or control, Executive Office political appointees, or anyone the President designates for special payment. The ban applies when the claim arises from alleged political targeting, alleged weaponization, investigative or prosecutorial activity, law enforcement actions, tax administration, intelligence activities, or Federal civil or criminal proceedings. This restriction would take effect upon enactment.
Limit DOJ representation for President
If enacted, the Department of Justice would be barred from representing the United States in any litigation where the President is a plaintiff or beneficiary and the relief sought could financially or politically benefit the President, the President's family, or affiliated entities. This includes requests for monetary damages, injunctions, or settlement authority. The change would take effect upon enactment and would alter which counsel represents the United States in those cases.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Crockett, Jasmine [D-TX-30]
TX • D
Cosponsors
Rep. Bell, Wesley [D-MO-1]
MO • D
Sponsored 5/26/2026
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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