The Trump administration is pursuing a settlement that would create a $1.7 billion fund for people claiming they were victims of government 'weaponization' — a legal architecture that converts a political slogan into a permanent, taxpayer-financed grievance mechanism. The closest structural precedent is the 1998 IRS Reform and Restructuring Act, which created adversarial hearings for taxpayers alleging IRS abuse — a genuine accountability measure — but did not hand the executive branch unilateral authority to define who counts as a victim and dispense public funds accordingly. What is being proposed here is categorically different: the administration that allegedly weaponizes government would also control the narrative of who was wrongly targeted by its predecessors. That is not a remedy. It is a self-sealing political instrument dressed in the language of due process.