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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Brendan Rascius and Alex Woodward

Trump may have dropped his ‘slush fund’ but not the agreement for tax amnesty, Blanche says

President Donald Trump’s administration may have pulled the plug on his $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund — part of a broader settlement resolving his unprecedented $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service — but one controversial element remains intact.

Last week, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., temporarily blocked the Trump administration from “taking any further action pursuant to the creation or operation of the Anti-Weaponization Fund,” designed to pay out victims of alleged government wrongdoing.

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