Trump Planning Taxpayer-Funded, $1.7 Billion Slush Fund for Political Allies | Receipts Live
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The Bulwark
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Catherine Rampell and JVL went LIVE to give their takes on Trump's reported plans for a secretive $1.7 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund that could quietly reward Jan. 6 defendants and Trump political allies behind closed doors.
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Transcript
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| 1:04.9 | here with my bulwark colleague. Mike, I think I can just call her a good friend at this point. |
| 1:10.4 | Catherine Rampel, author of The Receipts Newsletter. |
| 1:14.7 | And we have a lot of really interesting first world high trust society stuff to talk about today. |
| 1:25.2 | The kind of thing that you would see in Denmark, right? |
| 1:28.4 | Totally. |
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