{"id":74285,"date":"2026-06-01T10:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/democrats-vow-to-challenge-trumps-1-8bn-maga-slush-fund-in-us-senate\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T10:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:56:07","slug":"democrats-vow-to-challenge-trumps-1-8bn-maga-slush-fund-in-us-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/democrats-vow-to-challenge-trumps-1-8bn-maga-slush-fund-in-us-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats vow to challenge Trump\u2019s $1.8bn \u2018Maga slush fund\u2019 in US Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Schumer shares plans to force vote on \u2018anti-weaponization\u2019 fund and accuses Trump of \u2018corruption\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/democrats\">Democrats<\/a> in the US Senate vowed to force <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/republicans\">Republicans<\/a> to vote on a $1.8bn \u201cMAGA slush fund\u201d established as part of a resolution of Donald Trump\u2019s long-shot lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">US president<\/a> has described the secretive and loosely controlled \u201canti-weaponization fund\u201d as a means of paying the victims of politicized prosecutions. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/21\/senate-republicans-to-ditch-trump-ballroom-funding\">Members of his own party<\/a> are among those who have expressed alarm.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/01\/senate-democrats-challenge-trump-slush-fund\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Schumer shares plans to force vote on \u2018anti-weaponization\u2019 fund and accuses Trump of \u2018corruption\u2019 Democrats in the US Senate vowed to force Republicans to vote on a $1.8bn \u201cMAGA slush fund\u201d established as part of a resolution of Donald Trump\u2019s long-shot lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service. The US president has described the secretive &#8230; <a title=\"Democrats vow to challenge Trump\u2019s $1.8bn \u2018Maga slush fund\u2019 in US Senate\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/democrats-vow-to-challenge-trumps-1-8bn-maga-slush-fund-in-us-senate\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Democrats vow to challenge Trump\u2019s $1.8bn \u2018Maga slush fund\u2019 in US Senate\">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-74285","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\/74285","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=74285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}