Source: United States & Canada – South China Morning PostThe US Justice Department on Tuesday dropped a contentious plan to create a US$1.8 billion compensation programme that critics had denounced as a “slush fund” for President Donald Trump’s political allies.
“We are not moving forward with the fund,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said during testimony before a House committee.
The about-face is a setback for one of Trump’s most divisive second term initiatives, which had drawn criticism from Democrats, legal experts and numerous Republicans…Read More