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The acting attorney general said the administration was preserving a broad order protecting the president and his family from audits of already filed returns, despite dropping a $1.8 billion payout fund.
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Trump still protected from tax enforcement, but anti-weaponization fund is dead, Blanche says
The DOJ's $1.8 billion fund faced strong criticism because it could have compensated people convicted of crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol Riot.
Trump’s IRS settlement ends pending audits of past tax years while leaving future tax scrutiny intact, raising new questions about presidential tax oversight.
Even as they rebelled against a $1.8 billion fund for President Trump’s allies, Republicans looked the other way as his administration granted him potentially lucrative tax protections.
President Trump agreed to drop his lawsuit against the IRS in exchange for a fund that can compensate allies who were targeted under the Biden administration.
President Trump signed an executive order that puts some 8,000 high-ranking civil servants into a new category of employees who can be fired for any reason.
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The $1.8bn fund would have paid people the Trump administration decided were unjustly and politically targeted.