{"id":152380,"date":"2026-06-02T22:11:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T22:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152380"},"modified":"2026-06-02T22:11:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T22:11:05","slug":"trump-team-abandons-us1-8-billion-slush-fund-to-compensate-supportersunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152380","title":{"rendered":"Trump team abandons US$1.8 billion \u2018slush fund\u2019 to compensate supportersUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; 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 \u201cslush fund\u201d for President Donald Trump\u2019s political allies.<br \/>\n\u201cWe are not moving forward with the fund,\u201d Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said during testimony before a House committee.<br \/>\nThe about-face is a setback for one of Trump\u2019s most divisive second term initiatives, which had drawn criticism from Democrats, legal experts and numerous Republicans&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3355754\/trump-team-abandons-us18-billion-slush-fund-compensate-supporters?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; 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&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152380"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}