On Pam Bondi’s first day as attorney general in February 2025, she signed a directive that appeared to prohibit the kind of fund the Trump administration established this week.

White powder, purportedly finished fentanyl, sitting on a table in a kitchen in Culiacán, Mexico, where members of the Sinaloa cartel cook the drug.

The Trump administration is preparing budget cuts and further layoffs that could ultimately force the Internal Revenue Service to shed as much as 50 percent of its work force.