Trump administration agrees to briefly freeze ‘slush fund’ for allies

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U.S. President Donald Trump. File picture

U.S. President Donald Trump. File image
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The Justice Division mentioned on Monday (June 1, 2026) it would abide by a court docket ruling briefly freezing a $1.8 billion compensation bundle that critics have denounced as a “slush fund” for U.S. President Donald Trump’s political allies.

The transfer comes amid U.S. media stories that the Trump administration plans to drop plans for the fund, which has are available in for criticism by Democrats and a few members of Trump’s Republican Occasion.

U.S. District Choose Leonie Brinkema barred the administration final week from taking any additional motion to create or function the fund forward of a June 12 court docket listening to.

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