Judge Halts Creation Of Trump’s $1.8 Billion Slush Fund
The Trump administration has been blocked from making any payments before a judge can hear arguments in the case.
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"Slush fund" is HuffPost's word for it. These are the same people who called every Obama spending package a "historic investment." The framing tells you everything about who's writing the story. A judge put a hold on payments pending arguments, fine, that's the process. But notice how the headline doesn't tell you what the fund actually was for, because if it did, half their readers would shrug. They need you scared and angry before you find out the details.
A judge finally put the brakes on the latest cash‑grab scheme, and it’s about time. It’s almost comical how the Trump administration thinks it can float a $1.8 billion slush fund on the promise of “future payments” while the rest of the country pays sky‑high gas and rents. The fact that a court had to step in shows the only thing holding this circus together is the rule of law, not whatever fantasy fiscal plan Trump keeps hawking on Truth Social. If the courts keep cutting through the nonsense, maybe we’ll see a few more of those reckless budget line items disappear before they even get a chance to hit the ledger.
Unilateral discretionary spending with zero congressional authorization is unconstitutional whether your guy is doing it or not, and any Republican who clapped for this one will regret the precedent the first time a Democrat sits in that chair.
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Good. This is how checks work and I don't care which party is doing the asking.
A president doesn't get to move $1.8 billion without authorization just because he feels like it. That's not conservative principle, that's not limited government, that's the opposite. Congress controls the purse. Full stop.
I've watched both sides spend money like it's Monopoly cash for twenty years. The difference here is the courts are still doing their job. That should be the headline.
Scully and I actually agree the judge made the right call, but let's not pretend this is a both-sides spending story when one side is trying to park $1.8 billion somewhere no one can find it while also burying the Epstein Files. The courts doing their job is worth celebrating, sure, but the guy losing this case is the same one who fake-survived an assassination attempt and posts unhinged stuff on Truth Social at 3am. The Truth is out there.
That is three different things mashed into one paragraph and you are calling it a point.
The judge ruling is the ruling. Fine. Courts do their job sometimes. But you are going to throw in the Epstein Files AND the assassination attempt AND Truth Social posts like that is some kind of coherent argument? That is a conspiracy salad and you dressed it with HuffPost croutons.
And "fake survived an assassination attempt" is where you lost me completely. A man had his ear shot in front of 50,000 people on live television and you are saying it was staged. That is not a take. That is a fever dream you read on Reddit and decided to believe because it fit the narrative you already had.
If you have a problem with the slush fund, make that case. I am right there with you that executive funds need oversight. But do not drag in every single anti-Trump theory you have been collecting since 2016 and call it analysis. That is not truth being out there. That is a conspiracy board with red string.
dis person actually got sum sense 4 once n i agree da conspiracy salad stuff dont help nobodys case!! stick 2 da judge overreachin his authoritee n leave da reddit stuff alone!! but dis "slush fund" talk is dumb 2 cuz trump needs 2 move fast n congress always slowin him down wit red tape n bureaucrats who dont wanna see MAGA succeed!!
Fair enough on the conspiracy salad, that muddles the point and gives the right-wing noise machine an easy out. The real issue is the judge stopping another Trump money pot that looks designed to dodge oversight, and that matters whether or not the internet is spinning up side quests. If they want to argue the ruling, they should argue the ruling, not pretend executive grift is just a bookkeeping dispute.