Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is going to great lengths to defend the Trump administration’s “Anti-Weaponization” fund, saying he believes Americans “want their tax dollars spent on things like that.”

The Justice Department unveiled its plan for the fund Monday as part of a settlement agreement in President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the leaking of his tax returns.

The fund is set to receive $1.776 billion in taxpayer money that can be used to pay out “victims of lawfare and weaponization,” according to a press release.

Appearing on CNN’s “The Source With Kaitlan Collins” Wednesday, Blanche said he doesn’t think that most U.S. citizens will be angered by the fund’s mission.

“If you said to the American taxpayer that there is a horrible wrong committed by your government, and now you can apply, and you can have your lawyers’ fees back, you can be compensated for what you lost financially ... what American would say, ‘Oh my gosh, that’s terrible’?” he said.

He went on to note, “I do not think the American people have issues with that. To the contrary, I think they do want their tax dollars spent on things like that.”

Blanche did not specifically address the widespread criticisms of the fund among many prominent Democrats, who have deemed it a “slush fund” and a “personal rewards program” intended to funnel cash to Trump’s allies.

On Wednesday, it also became the subject of a lawsuit filed by two police officers who defended the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, as many of the since-pardoned, pro-Trump rioters are expected to seek compensation from the fund.

Elsewhere in his CNN interview, Blanche shrugged off the implication that anyone convicted of attacking law enforcement officers should be prohibited from accessing the fund.

“To be clear, people that hurt police get money all the time,” he said. “It’s abhorrent to ever, ever touch a law enforcement officer, which is why anytime anybody does that and it’s a federal officer, we’ll prosecute them. But that’s a completely different question, with whether an individual is allowed to apply for a claim.”

While much of the criticism has come from Democrats, a small number of Republicans have also expressed uneasiness with the fund. In an interview with the BBC, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said he was “not a big fan” and “not sure exactly how they intend to use it.”

“My assumption is that, based on some of the blowback that’s come since this was announced, that there would be a significant amount of attention paid to it,” he told the outlet.