Trump says his administration should pay him billions of dollars

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  Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.

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  I'm Ashley Lopez.

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  I cover politics.

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  I'm Tamara Keith.

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  I cover the White House.

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  And I'm Carrie Johnson.

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  I cover the Justice Department.

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  And today on the show,

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  President Trump has found another way to test the limits of his power as president,

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  this time by suing his own government for billions of dollars.

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  Tam, can you give us some background here?

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  Why is Trump asking the government for money?

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  because he feels that he was wronged in a couple of different instances.

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  So one,

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  he is filing a claim that adds up to $230 million against the Justice Department for the Russian investigation that happened during his first term and also the investigation of his retention of classified documents after he left the White House.

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  There was that search of Mar-a-Lago.

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  He talks about it at rallies that the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago and went through his wife's drawers,

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  was in the closet, was in his son's bedroom.

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  Trump sees it as a violation and part of a broader weaponization of government against him.

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  And so much of his administration is about payback, and these claims are in a way seeking payback.

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