The Justice Department has canceled plans to create a $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” that critics feared would have gone to loyalists of President Donald Trump. On Tuesday, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche testified that the DOJ would not move forward with plans for the fund, which was intended to compensate people who claimed to have been targeted by the “weaponization” of President Joe Biden’s government. It was the first time that an official publicly confirmed the DOJ would scrap the fund entirely after backlash from both Republicans and Democrats over concerns that it would serve as a “slush fund” for Trump’s allies and supporters, including those who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Legal experts also said the fund lacked a clear legal basis, with no judicial review or congressional oversight. “We are not moving forward with the fund, period,” Blanche told the House Appropriations subcommittee. In response to questions from Rep.…