Washington DC - Several Capitol Police officers are suing President Donald Trump's administration over a federal financial fund that would enrich MAGA loyalists.

According to NBC News, Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn and Metropolitan Police Department Officer Daniel Hodges filed a joint lawsuit on Tuesday, describing the fund as "a corrupt sham."

The lawsuit comes after the Department of Justice announced the fund on Monday as part of a settlement in a lawsuit Trump brought against the Internal Revenue Service seeking $10 billion in damages for a leak of his tax returns.

The Treasury Department will be tasked with depositing $1.776 billion into an account that is to be controlled and disbursed without congressional approval by a group of people chosen by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.

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Trump and Blanche have also teased the idea of funds being provided to those prosecuted for storming the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

During a Senate hearing on Monday, Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley of Oklahoma pressed Blanche to agree not to provide funds for insurrectionists who assaulted police officers, but the attorney general refused to do so.

On Tuesday, the president defended the fund, arguing that prosecutors going after rioters was "the most violent thing I've ever seen in politics."