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SENATE RESOLUTION 828—EXPRESSING THE SENSE OF THE SENATE THAT
PRESIDENT TRUMP'S LAWSUIT AGAINST THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, THE
RESULTING SETTLEMENT FROM THAT LAWSUIT, THE PURPORTED “ANTI-
INVESTIGATIONS TO THE PLAINTIFFS IN PRESIDENT TRUMP'S LAWSUIT, SHOULD BE REJECTED, EQUAL PROTECTION ARGUMENTS BY OTHERS WITH SIMILAR CLAIMS
SHOULD BE FORESTALLED, AND THIS SETTLEMENT SHOULD NOT SERVE AS A
PRECEDENT AND SHOULD NEVER BE REPEATED
Mr. BLUMENTHAL submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary:
S. Res. 828
Whereas, between 2019 and 2020, an Internal Revenue Service
(referred to in this preamble as the “IRS”) contractor
disclosed the tax information of hundreds of thousands of
individual and other tax entities, including President Donald
Trump;
Whereas, on January 29, 2026, President Trump, his sons,
Eric Trump and Donald Trump, Jr., and the Trump Organization
filed a lawsuit based on these disclosures against the IRS
and the Department of the Treasury, both of which Trump, as
the sitting President, controls;
Whereas President Trump sought $10,000,000,000 in damages
in his lawsuit, even though the other individuals who sued
the Federal Government for the same reason generally received
no monetary compensation, such as Kenneth Griffin, who
received only an apology from the IRS;
Whereas President Trump was free, during the statute of
limitations period when he was a private citizen, to bring an
improper tax disclosure lawsuit seeking a reasonable remedy;
Whereas President Trump did not pursue this lawsuit until
well after the 2-year statute of limitations period for such
improper tax disclosure claims had expired;
Whereas, on May 18, 2026, President Trump and the
Department of Justice that he controls announced that they
had agreed to a purported “settlement” of the lawsuit,
under which the Federal Government would establish an “Anti-
Weaponization Fund” to provide nearly $1,800,000,000 in
taxpayer payouts to individuals who President Trump deemed to
have “suffered weaponization and lawfare”, including
rioters who stormed the Capitol and attacked law enforcement
on January 6, 2021;
Whereas, on May 19, 2026, the day after the announcement of
the settlement, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche issued a
unilateral “addendum” to the settlement that purported to
immunize President Trump, his family, his companies, and his
“affiliates” from IRS investigations, audits, or claims
pertaining to any of their previous tax returns or other tax-
related actions;
Whereas our Constitution affords all people “equal
protection of the laws”;
Whereas there is no reason that President Trump and the
other plaintiffs in his lawsuit are entitled to special
treatment different from others harmed in the same illegal
disclosure of tax information;
Whereas, if the purported settlement with President Trump
is allowed to stand, the principle of equal protection of the
laws would give all victims of the same illegal tax
disclosure an argument to claim the same immunity over
retrospective tax audit investigations of their own filings;
Whereas affording such immunity to hundreds of thousands of
individuals and other tax entities would likely cost the
Federal Government millions, and perhaps even billions, of
dollars in lost revenue;
Whereas there is no credible argument that all victims of
the illegal disclosure should receive immunity covering all
retrospective tax audit investigations; and
Whereas the United States District Court for the Southern
District of Florida held that President Trump's lawsuit was
“non-adversarial, collusive, and jurisdictionally improper”
and thus “was brought for an improper purpose” because
“the [L]ead Plaintiff, President Trump, directs and controls
the Defendants”, the IRS, and the Treasury Department within
the executive branch of which he is the head: Now, therefore,
be it
Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that President
Trump's lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service and the
resulting settlement, the purported “Anti-Weaponization
Fund”, and the purported grant of immunity from tax
investigations to the plaintiffs in President Trump's
lawsuit, should be rejected, equal protection arguments by
others with similar claims should be forestalled, and this
settlement should not serve as a precedent and should never
be repeated.