Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said Wednesday that the actions of rioters who injured federal officers while storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, will be considered when deciding whether they receive taxpayer dollars as part of the Trump administration’s $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund.”

“One of the factors the commissioners have to consider is what the claimant did,” Blanche told CNN’s Paula Reid. “The claimant would have to say, ‘I assaulted a cop, and I want money.’”

Members of the commission who will determine payouts have yet to be announced.

“Whether the commissioners will give that person money — that claimant — it’s up to them. But that’s one of the factors they have to consider,” Blanche said.

At a Senate hearing just a day earlier, Blanche declined to say whether the money from the fund would be paid out to Jan. 6 rioters who’d been convicted of assaulting officers.

“There’s no limitation on the claims,” he said.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) said he plans to introduce an amendment that would bar child sex offenders and criminals who assaulted police officers from receiving any money from the fund.

Trump previously pardoned more than 1,500 people convicted of storming the Capitol.

Two former police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6 filed a lawsuit Wednesday aimed at blocking the fund’s creation. Former U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn and Metropolitan Police Officer Daniel Hodges alleged the slush fund violates various statutes laid out in the Administrative Procedure Act and claim the fund would be used to pay far-right extremists and paramilitary groups.

“The pardons that Donald Trump gave to the insurrectionists, it forgave them. It was saying ‘Thank you for doing that for me.’ Now these payments? These are rewarding them and creating an incentive now,” Dunn told HuffPost’s Brandi Buchman on Wednesday.

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