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Democrats vow to challenge Trump’s $1.8bn ‘Maga slush fund’ in US Senate

Democrats vow to challenge Trump’s $1.8bn ‘Maga slush fund’ in US Senate

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/01/senate-democrats-challenge-trump-slush-fund 

 

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Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting in the White House in Washington DC on 27 May. Photograph: Kent Nishimura/AFP/Getty Images

Democrats vow to challenge Trump’s $1.8bn ‘Maga slush fund’ in US Senate

Chuck Schumer shares plans to force vote on ‘anti-weaponization’ fund and accuses Trump of ‘corruption’

Democrats in the US Senate vowed to force Republicans to vote on a $1.8bn “MAGA slush fund” established as part of a resolution of Donald Trump’s long-shot lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service.

The US president has described the secretive and loosely controlled “anti-weaponization fund” as a means of paying the victims of politicized prosecutions. Members of his own party are among those who have expressed alarm.

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