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Senate advances controversial $72B spending bill funding ICE
The U.S. spends more money on ICE than Israel, France and Japan spend on their defense programs.
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The Anti-Weaponization Fund Is Dead. Long Live Its Death
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Congress should not only ensure the end of the Trump slush fund but also prevent his successors from doing anything similar.
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Platner’s anti-corporate crusade hits awkward snag as receipts tell another story
Maine Democrat Graham Platner built an anti-corporate brand while cashing checks from lobbyists tied to Big Pharma, defense and tech, documents show.
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Trump adds uncertainty to the status of $1.8 billion 'anti-weaponization' fund
When asked by a reporter, President Trump did not clarify the future of the $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund, saying he would “have to ask the lawyers. I don’t know.” Trump’s comments follow acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s statement that the Justice Department is “not moving forward” with the fund.
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Trump Admin Scraps $1.8 Billion ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’ After Backlash
The DOJ said it was abandoning plans for the fund, which critics feared would be used to give taxpayer money to Jan. 6 rioters, but plans to bar the I.R.S. from auditing Trump’s past tax returns remain.
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Raw Story
Republicans panicking after Trump 'cut their legs out' with slush fund move: CNN
President Donald Trump gave Republicans another reason to pull their hair out on Wednesday after he refused to confirm whether he would pursue a controversial move that has received a lot of blowback. Trump has teased establishing a $1.776 billion fund to pay people who claim that they were wrongfully prosecuted by the government. The fund would have been established as part of a settlement of a private lawsuit Trump filed against the IRS in 2019 over his leaked tax returns. The fund received blowback after several of Trump's allies said they would seek restitution. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told Congress repeatedly on Tuesday that the administration was abandoning the fund. But Trump refused to confirm that plan when asked during a press gaggle on Wednesday, which seemed to spook some Republicans, according to CNN's Manu Raju. "This is just another example where Republicans want to pull their hair out on Capitol Hill," Raju told Kaitlan Collins on "The Source." "A perfectly laid plan, so they thought, until Trump comes out and says something else and completely cuts their legs from underneath them."
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Live updates: Senate poised for vote-a-rama on reconciliation; Trump to boost coal
The Senate is expected to launch into a voting blitz on Thursday as it moves toward passing a budget reconciliation package that would fund immigration enforcement agencies. A party-line vote kicked off hours of debate, followed by a series of unlimited back-to-back amendment votes before final passage later this week. The chamber on Wednesday revealed…
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California governor’s race remains unresolved as vote count continues – US politics live
State election officials continue to work through the uncounted primary ballots, a process that could take days or weeksHello and welcome to the US politics live blog.The race to become California’s next governor in the Senate remains up in the air, with voters potentially waiting weeks until the results are known.A leftwing US political commentator has described the UK government’s decision to ban him from entering the country as “haunting and hilarious” and “Kafkaesque”. Cenk Uygur, the founder and a host on Young Turks, a well-established progressive media outlet, was banned earlier this week from entering the UK to attend a speaking engagement alongside Hasan Piker, a Twitch streamer who has become a popular figure on the US political left.The US House of Representatives delivered a stunning rebuke to Donald Trump over his war on Iran on Wednesday, as representatives backed a move to force him to seek approval from Congress or withdraw US forces.Before signing an executive order related to customs in the Oval Office on Wednesday, Trump took seven minutes to reassure an anxious public, beset by worries about a protracted war with Iran, surging gasoline prices and rising inflation, that progress has been made on at least one front: the resurfacing of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is nearly complete.The president also took time to once again attack the CNN host Kaitlan Collins for not smiling in his presence and blamed her network for the suicides of four January 6 defendants.The US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, refused to say whether Trump, his family and his businesses would still get immunity from IRS audits after the administration yesterday abandoned plans for a $1.8bn fund that would have benefited the president’s allies.Bessent did confirm that he threatened to beat up a fellow administration member, Bill Pulte, last summer. Continue reading...
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Bloomberg Politics
Senate GOP Cuts Trump Ballroom Funds | Balance of Power: Early Edition 6/3/2026
On the early edition of Balance of Power, Bloomberg Washington Correspondents Joe Mathieu and Kailey Leinz discuss the latest news from the Trump Administration. On today's show, Stonecourt Capital Partner Rick Davis, Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center Visiting Democracy Fellow Jeanne Sheehan Zaino, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp and Massachusetts Congressman Jake Auchincloss. (Source: Bloomberg)
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