{"id":73620,"date":"2026-05-16T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T01:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/trump-news-at-a-glance-billions-of-taxpayer-dollars-could-go-to-president-and-his-allies-in-unprecedented-move\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T20:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T01:00:11","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-billions-of-taxpayer-dollars-could-go-to-president-and-his-allies-in-unprecedented-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/trump-news-at-a-glance-billions-of-taxpayer-dollars-could-go-to-president-and-his-allies-in-unprecedented-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: billions of taxpayer dollars could go to president and his allies in unprecedented move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If case is settled for full amount Trump is requesting, a $10bn payment would more than double his family\u2019s net worth \u2013 key US politics stories from Saturday, 16 May at a glance<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump may agree to drop his massive $10bn lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service in exchange for the launch of a $1.7bn fund to compensate people he says were wrongfully targeted by the Biden administration, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>The case is the latest example of how Trump has taken over the justice department \u2013 which typically operates at arm\u2019s length from the White House \u2013 and deployed it for his own ends.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/17\/trump-news-at-a-glance-irs-billions-taxpayer-dollars-could-paid-president-and-allies\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If case is settled for full amount Trump is requesting, a $10bn payment would more than double his family\u2019s net worth \u2013 key US politics stories from Saturday, 16 May at a glance Donald Trump may agree to drop his massive $10bn lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service in exchange for the launch of a &#8230; <a title=\"Trump news at a glance: billions of taxpayer dollars could go to president and his allies in unprecedented move\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/trump-news-at-a-glance-billions-of-taxpayer-dollars-could-go-to-president-and-his-allies-in-unprecedented-move\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump news at a glance: billions of taxpayer dollars could go to president and his allies in unprecedented move\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}