{"id":73680,"date":"2026-05-18T09:59:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/trump-moves-to-dismiss-10bn-lawsuit-against-irs-amid-reports-hes-considering-settlement\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T09:59:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:59:48","slug":"trump-moves-to-dismiss-10bn-lawsuit-against-irs-amid-reports-hes-considering-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/trump-moves-to-dismiss-10bn-lawsuit-against-irs-amid-reports-hes-considering-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump moves to dismiss $10bn lawsuit against IRS amid reports he\u2019s considering settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Settlement with the US government would create $1.7bn fund to compensate allies for supposed persecution<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.flsd.706172\/gov.uscourts.flsd.706172.52.0_5.pdf\">moved to dismiss<\/a> a $10bn lawsuit against the IRS on Monday, dropping his claims <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/16\/trump-irs-lawsuit-compensation-fund\">amid reports<\/a> he is considering a settlement with the federal government that would create a $1.7bn fund to compensate allies for supposed persecution by the government.<\/p>\n<p>The Monday filing came just two days ahead of a 20 May deadline in which the judge overseeing the case asked the parties for briefing on whether a legitimate controversy existed \u2013 a requirement for any lawsuit \u2013 because Trump controls the IRS.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/18\/trump-dismiss-10-billion-dollar-irs-lawsuit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Settlement with the US government would create $1.7bn fund to compensate allies for supposed persecution Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Donald Trump moved to dismiss a $10bn lawsuit against the IRS on Monday, dropping his claims amid reports he is considering a settlement with the federal government that would create a &#8230; <a title=\"Trump moves to dismiss $10bn lawsuit against IRS amid reports he\u2019s considering settlement\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/trump-moves-to-dismiss-10bn-lawsuit-against-irs-amid-reports-hes-considering-settlement\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump moves to dismiss $10bn lawsuit against IRS amid reports he\u2019s considering settlement\">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-73680","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\/73680","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=73680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}