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The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Drain the Slush Fund with Senator Elissa Slotkin

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

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Politics, Government, News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Better not count those chickens before they hatch, January 6ers. Fighting Democrat Senator Elissa Slotkin is going to make damned sure you don't get a dime of taxpayer money now or ever. The Michigan Senator joins Steve Schmidt to talk about her new "Drain The Slush Fund Act", Trump's naked and never-ending corruption, the war in Iran and more. Brought to you by the Save America Movement. 

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0:00.0

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0:04.0

He can't change his mind and that this now has to be written into law.

0:10.9

What's the latest update on all of this?

0:15.1

Yeah.

0:15.5

I mean, what was interesting is that this was a rare moment where some of the Republicans really

0:20.6

pushed back on Trump.

0:22.6

He set up this, you know, a trillion dollar, excuse me, billion dollar slush fund for anyone who he felt had been wronged.

0:31.6

It was taxpayer dollars.

0:33.6

And he was promoting it to people, you know, violent people who had been convicted on January 6 crimes

0:41.3

and saying that they should get money back for the time that they spent in jail or in the legal system.

0:48.6

And that proved to be so unpopular with his own party using taxpayer dollars, especially, that he's now

0:55.7

saying he's backing away from it. But like, we've seen him, you know, back away from a lot of things.

1:01.2

You've got to kind of put a nail in that coffin. So we introduced a bill. Literally, the bill is

1:06.7

one sentence long that just would prevent any taxpayer dollars being used for any such

1:12.7

weaponization fund. And, you know, we all remember when he said the ballroom, like, it won't

1:20.8

cost the taxpayers a dime, nothing to see here. And then he just asked for a billion dollars

1:26.2

to build the ballroom. So there is no like trust but verify.

1:30.4

It's just kill it in its crib before it becomes a real thing.

1:35.8

How do you think about that in the next Congress,

1:39.2

imagining a Democratic majority but a Trump presidency in the two years before the presidential election.

1:47.8

I mean, there's going to need to be coming out of this, one would hope, a legislation season

1:55.8

that's going to equal the New Deal. We will need to see a Congress pass a hundred pieces of legislation to

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