Katherine Faulders

Back officially from maternity leave today. The best job in the world is being a mom and I’m grateful to @ABC for the time I was able to spend at home with family these past four months ❤️ My last day at work was the day Nicolás Maduro was captured and what’s true about this industry is the news never stops. I have the most incredible colleagues, many of whom found themselves in a scary and fluid situation this past weekend and reported so gracefully under pressure. This job is not easy, to say the least. I’m lucky to work with them — now let’s break some news!

I was in the middle of taping on my iPhone for a social video from the White House North Lawn when we heard the shots. It sounded like dozens of gunshots. We were told to sprint to the press briefing room where we are holding now.

DOJ publicly acknowledges it is deleting press releases about Jan. 6 from its website ⬇️

NEW: A federal judge in Tennessee has GRANTED Kilmar Abrego Garcia's motion to DISMISS for vindictive prosecution. (h/t Lawfare's Peter Beck)

Trump allies, Jan. 6 defendants lining up to apply for $1.7 billion fund. Story from @lauraromero1207 & @PCCharalambous abcnews.com/US/trump-allie…

US Magistrate Judge Reinhart, who authorized the search of Mar-a-Lago, recuses himself from the case of the prosecutor charged with sending herself a copy of Volume II of the Jack Smith report — detailing how Trump absconded with highly classified national defense secrets there. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

Strange answers here from Trump re: IRS/weaponization deal. Trump: "I wasn't involved in the settlement. I could have been involved but I didn't choose to be. So, they made a settlement." Who the heck is is "they?" politico.com/news/2026/05/1…

According to the indictment, Lineberger renamed the report "Bundt_Cake_Recipe.pdf" before attaching it to an email from her DOJ account to her personal Gmail account.

New: DOJ charges prosecutor with attempting to steal report on Trump's classified docs case abcnews.com/US/doj-charges… w/ @KFaulders @PCCharalambous

Scoop: Lawyers at the IRS prepared a 25-page memo recommending that DOJ move to dismiss Trump's lawsuit against the agency. DOJ instead settled the case by creating the $1.776 billion "anti-weaponization" fund.

Good scoop

NEWS -- Attorneys representing President Donald Trump informed a federal judge on Monday that the president plans to drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service.

The DOJ is finalizing a deal to launch a so-called "Truth and Justice Commission" to pay claims made by alleged victims of government "weaponization" in exchange for Trump dropping his lawsuit against the IRS, sources say. ABC News' @KFaulders reports. abcnews.link/yeuAJIM

Amici (including ex-Judge Gleeson & ex-SG Don Verrilli) have told the judge in IRS v Trump of 3 “substantial defenses” in Trump’s tax case, including (1) sovereign immunity, being argued *now* by DOJ in other cases involving tax leaks by the *same* govt contractor ... 1/3

More in this story about the internal debate in the months leading up to this proposed settlement in the IRS case - and how officials discussed utilizing a centuries-old common law principle called ‘The Rule of Necessity.’ W/ @PCCharalambous @alex_mallin abcnews.com/US/trump-admin…

MORE - I’m told the potential commission tasked with approving payouts to Trump allies will likely be called, ‘The President Donald J. Trump Truth and Justice Commission,’ and the total amount available in the fund will be… $1.776 billion.

NEWS -- President Trump is expected to drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service in exchange for the creation of a $1.7 billion fund to compensate allies who claim they were wrongfully targeted by the Biden administration, sources tell me @PCCharalambous @alex_mallin abcnews.com/US/trump-poise…

The proposed creation of the compensation fund has led some administration officials to raise ethical concerns about the arrangement -- stemming not only from Trump suing his own government but also having control of an entity that can freely hand out $1.7 billion to his allies.

President Trump is expected to drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS in exchange for the creation of a $1.7 billion fund to compensate allies who claim they were wrongfully targeted by the Biden administration, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. ABC News' Katherine Faulders reports. abcnews.link/N5ojGWx

“Trump's proposed commission is expected to be composed of five members who would issue monetary awards based on a majority vote, and the process for awarding money and the identities of the recipient could be kept private, according to sources.”

President Trump is expected to drop his $10 billion IRS suit in exchange for the creation of a $1.7 billion fund for victims of governmental "weaponization," sources say. abcnews.link/SYPolhJ